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    Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft, Icahn proposal (Reuters)

    A combination image showing the (L) Microsoft and Yahoo logos. (Sebastien Pirlet - L/Rick Wilking - R/Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Saturday rejected a proposal to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl Icahn.


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    Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:27:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo spurns Microsoft again as bad blood boils (AP)

    In this May 4, 2007 file photo, a Times Square news ticker flashes a headline about Microsoft above a billboard for Yahoo in New York. Yahoo Inc. late Saturday rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a 'take or leave it' proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)AP - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.


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    Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:37:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo rejects a new Microsoft deal (AFP)

    Corporate raider Carl Icahn on AFP - Yahoo said Saturday it has rejected a "ludicrous" deal with Microsoft orchestrated by corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is bent on overthrowing the struggling Internet search pioneer's board.


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    Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:53:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Facebook Grows Up (PC Magazine)
    PC Magazine - Has Facebook rewritten the concept of the Internet portal? -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:50:04 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Schmidt: Independent Yahoo better for competition (AP)

    In this May 5, 2008 file photo, workers walk outside of a Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif. Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying Monday, July 7, 2008, that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said here Thursday.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:46:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Murdoch's News Corp. unlikely to be in Yahoo deal (AP)

    Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of New Corporation arrives with his wife, Wendi, for the annual Allen & Co.'s media conference Wednesday, July 9, 2008, in Sun Valley, Idaho. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)AP - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said his media conglomerate is "very unlikely" to be a part of any deal for Yahoo Inc., scuttling talk that Microsoft Corp. was making headway in enlisting the media mogul as part of a deal to break up the Internet search company.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:11:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo Wants You To Build Your Own Search Service (TechWeb)
    TechWeb - InformationWeek - BOSS removes many of the usage restrictions on Yahoo's search APIs, encouraging developers to create "credible alternatives to Yahoo and Google." -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Privacy protections disappear with a judge's order (AP)
    AP - Credit card companies know what you've bought. Phone companies know whom you've called. Electronic toll services know where you've gone. Internet search companies know what you've sought. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:10:02 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Schmidt: Independent Yahoo better for competition (AP)

    In this May 5, 2008 file photo, workers walk outside of a Microsoft campus in Mountain View, Calif. Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying Monday, July 7, 2008, that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said here Thursday.


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    Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:20:27 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo opens search toolkit in quest for more ads (AP)

    Exterior view of Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Having fallen so far behind Google Inc. that it became a takeover target, Yahoo Inc. is banking on the creativity of other Web developers to help preserve its independence and regain ground in the lucrative Internet search advertising market.


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    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:48:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Photobucket signs Ask.com search marketing deal (Reuters)
    Reuters - IAC/InterActiveCorp's search engine unit Ask.com said on Thursday struck a deal that allows its search box to be displayed across online photo and video site Photobucket.com. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:24:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo BOSS Opens Search Technology to Developers (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - In a move to build partnerships with third-party developers, Yahoo on Thursday introduced a new open Web services platform. Yahoo Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) gives outside developers unprecedented access to Yahoo's search technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of results. -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:47:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo Opens Its Search Technology to Third Parties (PC World)
    PC World - Yahoo is making its search engine available to third parties to build their own search services, in return for a cut of their... -- read full article
    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:30:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo to offer its search services to outside firms (Reuters)

    A man runs past the headquarters of Yahoo in Sunnyvale, California May 5, 2008 REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Yahoo Inc will let customers, academics and even rivals build customized Web search services on top of its own technology, introducing a resale model into a major Internet market where it ranks a distant No. 2 to Google Inc.


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    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:44:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
    Yahoo opens search toolkit in quest for more ads (AP)

    Exterior view of Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Having fallen so far behind Google Inc. that it became a takeover target, Yahoo Inc. is banking on the creativity of other Web developers to help preserve its independence and regain ground in the lucrative Internet search advertising market.


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    Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:46:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
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