Slashdot Banner
Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments
typodupeerror delete not in
  • Preferences

+-   Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft -- Embraces Google-> on Thursday June 12 2008, @03:36PM snydeq

Submitted by snydeq on Thursday June 12 2008, @03:36PM
yahoo
snydeq writes "Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for breaking off the talks? That Microsoft was only interested in purchasing Yahoo's search business, not all of the company. "Such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders," the company said in a statement. The deal with Google allegedly involves Yahoo's search advertising business. The move likely will draw more ire from Icahn and may in fact remain part of the elaborate poker game between the two companies. Microsoft said this alternative transaction remains on the table and did not confirm that talks between it and Yahoo have concluded."
Link to Original Source
submission
This discussion was created for logged-in users only, but now has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft -- Embraces Google 0 Comments More /

 Full
 Abbreviated
 Hidden
More
Loading... please wait.
Search
If you are what you eat, does that mean Euell Gibbons really was a nut?

All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2009 Geeknet, Inc.