Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo

San Francisco Chronicle by Verne Kopytoff | Feb. 1, 2008 (News Report)

Microsoft Corp. has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling Internet behemoth Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor to industry leader Google Inc. Full Story »

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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 1, 2008

While not a particularly stirring story, it's important because the behemoths are eating each other again. Yahoo is already unfriendly to Mac and Mozilla users. I expect that to get worse under Microsoft--eager to extend the dominance of Explorer.

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