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Microsoft Circles Back to Yahoo With New Offer

Posted by timothy on from the soap-operas-never-end dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft has come back to Yahoo with a new offer that would involve it buying part of Yahoo. No details have been released, but sources told the Wall Street Journal that part of the arrangement would involve Microsoft selling display ads next to Yahoo search results. No word yet on how this will impact Carl Icahn's proxy war with Yahoo's board."

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  1. Headlines after the merger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Icahn Forces Yahoo To Pick Up The Soap!!

    Microsoft Embraces and Extends, Upon Completion Balmer Shouts YAHOO!!

  2. Re:How's this going to work?? by shanen · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's like the vulture circling back to the corpse, except in the case of Microsoft it's the old joke: "Patience, hell. I want to kill something."

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  3. Re:What's the MS kill list for this year by Eighty7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Admiral Ackbar was right! About ... EVERYTHING!

  4. Re:Web advertising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I completely agree. I ask my friends "when was the last time you intentionally clicked on a web ad, and then actually bought something as a result?". 2 people, a cat and a dog do not count as an accurate survey.
  5. Match Made in Heaven! by FurtiveGlancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've always thought of M$ as a collection of smart, but arrogant yahoos. Now they can bully their way into buying the domain name that fits them best. [flame off]

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  6. A proposal for a new YouTube hit. by mynickwastaken · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hmm... This gives me the idea mixing the popular YouTube video "Here It Goes Again" with this one.

  7. Re:Web advertising by Frekko · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should get an answer to this once and for all by the means of a serious and infallible slashdot poll!

  8. Re:Web advertising by pablomme · · Score: 3, Funny

    if you sell gloves that are missing the middle finger on one hand (for people who've lost that finger), you could theoretically dial in your adwords to catch that person. Easy, they'll be looking for "glovs" on "www.googl.om".
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  9. Re:Web advertising by v(*_*)vvvv · · Score: 2, Funny

    If an ad is clicked in the forest, does it still make a sound?

    "click!"