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Recent Microsoft/Yahoo Posts

Yahoo! nowhere near sealing Microsoft deal

[Posted on June 5, 2009 at 12:41 PM]

A Bernstein analyst interprets Carol Bartz's recent comments to mean a Yahoo!-Microsoft deal won't happen until next year.
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3,000 Microsoft employees get pink slips

[Posted on May 5, 2009 at 6:46 PM]

Microsoft announced it would cut 5,000 workers back in January. Tuesday, 3,000 of them learned their jobs got cut.
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Microsoft: First year-to-year revenue drop

[Posted on April 23, 2009 at 5:27 PM]

Microsoft's EPS fell to 33 cents, 6 cents lower than analysts expected, and 14 cents less than the same quarter a year ago, reflecting low PC shipments worldwide.
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Ballmer could save Bartz $1B a year

[Posted on April 14, 2009 at 4:17 PM]

Jefferies & Co. Internet analyst Youssef Squali says Yahoo! could save $1 billion-plus a year by outsourcing search infrastructure to Microsoft.
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Yahoo!'s Bartz and Microsoft's Ballmer talking

[Posted on April 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM]

The CEOs of Yahoo! and Microsoft met face to face last week, says AllThingsDigital's Kara Swisher.
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Microsoft overpaid severance, wants money back

[Posted on February 23, 2009 at 2:00 PM]

Losing your job wasn't bad enough. Now your former employer says you owe it money.
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Microsoft cuts 5,000 jobs, declines to provide EPS guidance

[Posted on January 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM]

For the first time in its 34-year history, Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] has announced widespread layoffs, slashing up to 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months, including 1,400 Thursday. The moves...
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Google, Yahoo! likely to drop venture

[Posted on October 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM]

A proposed joint venture between rival Internet companies Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. appears headed for the trash bin, just ahead of an expected U.S. Department of Justice challenge to...
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Microsoft attorney rails against Yahoo!-Google deal

[Posted on August 8, 2008 at 3:54 PM]

Microsoft Corp.'s top outside antitrust adviser spoke at a conservative Washington legal think-tank about the proposed contract on search advertising between Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., saying the arrangement...
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Icahn blasts Yahoo! chairman

[Posted on June 9, 2008 at 3:43 PM]

The war of words between Carl Icahn and Yahoo! Inc. resumed this morning when the activist investor issued a response to the company's retort on Friday. In his letter, Icahn...
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Dealwatch: Yahoo!

[Posted on June 9, 2008 at 2:37 PM]

A shareholder suit and a heated exchange between Yahoo! Inc. chairman Roy Bostock and activist investor Carl Icahn are the latest repercussions since Microsoft Corp. pulled its $47.5 billion bid...
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Icahn blasts Obama at investor conference

[Posted on May 22, 2008 at 1:35 PM]

During the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference on Wednesday at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, a packed house of Wall Street's finest with BlackBerries ready...
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Stifel Nicolaus: Any Yahoo! deal would receive close scrutiny

[Posted on May 19, 2008 at 4:30 PM]

Although Carl Icahn's proxy contest at Yahoo! Inc. is his way of pushing for a bidding war between Microsoft Inc. and Google Inc. for the Web portal, search engine and...
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