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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego
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via MarketWatch @ 7:21 13th Jul
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Yahoo has rejected yet another bid to buy its search operations, this time a combined, take-it-or-leave-it offer from Microsoft and activist investor Carl Icahn. The embattled Internet pioneer said the new bid contained no guarantees that it would be superior to the Google search ad deal signed in early June. And Yahoo repeated its willingness to sell the whole company to Microsoft for the software giant’s last offer of $33 a share, which Microsoft withdrew two months ago and said it doesn’t plan to revisit. (Full text of Yahoo’s statement after the jump.)
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via Business Week @ 19:23 13th Jul
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NEW YORK - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo Inc’s search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo’s breakup, the Wall Street Journal said.
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via MSNBC @ 11:20 2nd Jul
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Last night Yahoo rejected another offer for its search business from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The proposal also included conditions that would have required the replacement of Yahoo's top management and board of directors. This is not the first time Icahn has pushed for such a measure. Quoting: "Yahoo said in rejecting the offer it told Microsoft it was willing to sell the entire company for at least $33 a share and its board believed such a deal could be negotiated and executed before its annual shareholders meeting on August 1. Yahoo said it also informed the software giant it remained willing to negotiate an 'improved search only transaction.' Microsoft, however, rejected both offers, Yahoo stated."
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via Slashdot @ 8:16 14th Jul
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Microsoft could team up with Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in a new bid to acquire Yahoo's search business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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via CIO @ 8:27 2nd Jul
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Microsoft could team up with Time Warner and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp in a new bid to acquire Yahoo's search business, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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via ActiveWin.com @ 19:16 2nd Jul
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Yahoo! has introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results, the company announced. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available now as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry, the company said.
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via Midrange Computing @ 6:41 12th Jul
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Yahoo late Saturday revealed that it has rejected a purportedly aggressive joint bid proposed by Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The deal would have seen both the Windows developer and Icahn buy Yahoo's search business and significantly restructure Yahoo to potentially improve its remaining businesses, including the replacement of the board of directors with Icahn's own slate and remove the "top management team" at the company, which most observers believe would include Yahoo chief Jerry Yang as well as others known to have opposed any of Microsoft's earlier offers for takeovers and partial buyouts.
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via MacNN @ 7:25 13th Jul
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ruphus13 and other readers alerted us to Yahoo's BOSS, Build your Own Search Service. It gives access to Yahoo's entire databases for Web, image, and news search with no cap on queries per day and no restrictions on mixing Yahoo's search results with others or re-sorting them, and without Yahoo branding visible. From their blog announcement: "As anyone who follows the search industry knows, the barriers to successfully building a high quality, web-scale search engine are incredibly high. Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure — from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have
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via Slashdot @ 13:45 11th Jul
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Yahoo rejected another offer for acquisition of its search business. This time it was a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and investor Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo’s search business in return for cash, a partial stock buyout and revenue guarantees. There was also an addition requirement for the complete replacement of the Yahoo board and executive management team. Yahoo was urged to respond within 24 hours and it was made clear that negotiations were not acceptable.
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via Promotion World @ 21:34 14th Jul
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Yahoo announced Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
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via CNET News.com @ 10:14 13th Jul
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Consumer Service & Business Opportunity : Yahoo! Opens Up Search Technology Infrastructure for Innovative, New Search Experiences, Providing Third Parties with Unprecedented Access, Re-Ranking and Presentation Control of Web Search Results
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via Prudent Press Agency @ 6:10 10th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft. The proposal was made on Friday evening and Yahoo! was given less than 24 hours to accept the proposal, the fundamental .....
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via Tutorial Finder @ 10:16 13th Jul
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Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business. The offer was initiated on Friday and Yahoo was given just 24 hours to make a decision, according to a press release issued by Yahoo.
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via Redmond Channel Partner @ 5:43 17th Jul
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Yahoo's management on Saturday rejected an offer from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn to buy Yahoo's Internet search ad business. The offer was initiated on Friday and Yahoo was given just 24 hours to make a decision, according to a press release issued by Yahoo.
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via ENT News @ 9:43 15th Jul
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Yahoo! Inc. announced that it will offer users the ability to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. This new option expands Yahoo!'s existing opt-out program for customized advertising served by Yahoo! on third party networks. Yahoo! announced the new opt-out capability as part of its response to a Congressional inquiry about customization sent to 33 companies from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This new opt-out capability is expected to be available for consumers by the end of August. Users will be able to access the opt-out in the Yahoo! privacy center, which is linked on the home page and nearly every page on the Yahoo! network.
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via EContent Magazine @ 11:29 12th Aug
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ST. LOUIS, BUSINESS WIRE -- Marketers have a new place to fuel up and add mileage to their marketing programs. SearchFuel (www.searchfuel.com), a new blog centered around search marketing and its influence in the media landscape, launched today with the purpose of serving as a regular, conversational resource for traditional and digital advertisers, media buyers and search marketers by providing unique industry insight about the search landscape and fuel discussion and debate of factors affecting advertisers and the industry. The blog will feature search perspective from talent across Outrider and the agency divisions of GroupM Search, including Beyond Interaction Search, MEC Interaction and MindShare Search.
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via Digital Media Net @ 9:58 4th Sep
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Yahoo!'s New Open Web Services Platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Extends its Open Strategy and Fuels Disruption in the Search Landscape
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via Houston Chronicle @ 4:53 10th Jul
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Yahoo!'s New Open Web Services Platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Extends its Open Strategy and Fuels Disruption in the Search Landscape
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via AEC News Room @ 4:04 10th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via DMN Newswire @ 18:38 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Oceania @ 10:10 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via IT Business Net @ 10:11 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Consumer Electronics Net @ 5:20 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via AEC News Room @ 10:16 13th Jul
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The pressure for Yahoo to knuckle under and do a deal with Microsoft just keeps rising. This morning, Microsoft said in a statement that it’s willing to return to the table for a new deal—either for Yahoo’s search operations or even for the whole company—if a new board proposed by activist financier Carl Icahn is elected at Yahoo’s Aug. 1 annual meeting.
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via Business Week @ 14:56 7th Jul
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