EU, US Regulators Give Green Lights To Microsoft/Yahoo Deal

Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have combined forces to take on Google in US online display and search advertising markets.The search engine giant enjoys the lion’s share of the US online market, raking in more than $2...

Microsoft and Yahoo! have been given permission to embark on a search engine deal announced seven months ago. European Competition law regulators have said the deal will not damage the European search engine market. Microsoft...

Eurocrats have rubber-stamped Microsoft and Yahoo's bid to buiild a "search alliance" to combat the might of Google. Both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission have give the companies their blessing following...

Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are all set to secure an approval from the European Commission for their search deal that will see Microsoft Bing search technology powering all the searches on sites owned by Yahoo including Yahoo...

Microsoft's planned search pact with Yahoo!, which inevitably has Google in its sights, is expected to meet with  EU approval, according to a Reuters source. Microsoft and Yahoo signed a 10-year Web search pact last July in...

Shortly after Google launched its Gmail social networking tool Buzz, Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp., have lashed out the search engine giant, mocking the newly launched social networking tool. Microsoft Corp, the world’s...

Microsoft has officially announced that it will form a strategic alliance with Yahoo, the former darling of the internet and original global web portal, to fight Google's hegemony in the online search market.Interestingly, both...

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, has stepped down as the CEO of the beleaguered internet company and has been widely criticised for not allowing Microsoft to buy the company back in February after an offer of $33 was...

A report by Comscore underlined Google's dominance of the UK Search market as the Internet giant surpasses the 75 percent barrier in June.Although the increase was minute at half a percent, Google now accounts for nearly three...

The deal only applies to the US and Canada at the moment and US authorities have said they will investigate it, but it is likely that European authorities would also examine the deal if it were extended to the EU.The agreement...

Microsoft has issued a stern and concise statement about the whole Yahoo acquisition saga which effectively ends the buying process although Microsoft is still keeping an open mind on future options. "In the weeks since...

Microsoft's last week ultimatum to Yahoo to "take or leave" the acquisition offer seems to have caused the internet company to vigorously explore other potential partnerships: Google, AOL, News Corp are the three...

Yet another letter, this time from Yahoo to highlight how good they are and how much Microsoft has undervalued them.Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has sent a letter to its stockholders, outlining the reasons the Board believes...

The battle is not yet over; Yahoo's board of directors might have rejected Microsoft's bid for Yahoo but it looks like the software giant is going to persevere and look for shareholders approval instead. "Microsoft Corp....

The letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors    January 31, 2008    Board of Directors    Yahoo! Inc.    701 First Avenue    Sunnyvale,...