Microsoft mulled Yahoo pact to fight Google: report
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| NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has held discussions to buy a stake
| in Internet media company Yahoo Inc. to compete against Google Inc., th
| Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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| Although talks over an equity stake do not appear to be active,
| Microsoft's top management remains open to a deal with Yahoo as
| pressure grows from shareholders to perform better against Google,
| the newspaper said, citing people familiar with the situation.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060503/tc_nm/microsoft_yahoo_dc
Observations: not only has the Vista project manager been 'swapped' (Vista in
Spanish means vision/outlook, which is grim) , but the same applies to MSN:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Names_New_MSN_Head/1145890975
They also pulled a fast one with A9/Alexa/Amazon:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/05/03/cnmicro03.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/05/03/ixcity.html
It's evident where those multi-billion, anti-Google funds are going. I will
not go as far as using the word "bribery".
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