Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat May 5, 2007 11:36 AM EDT

Article Source: New York Post

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Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.

While Microsoft and Yahoo! have held informal deal talks over the years, sources say the latest approach signals an urgency on Microsoft's part that has up until now been lacking.

The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said. But Yahoo! spurned the advances of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.

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I can't even imagine what the Internet landscape would look like if this happened. Okay, well, actually, probably not a lot would change. Except that unlimited Flickr accounts would now be purchasable with Xbox points. :-)

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