Google mulls Microsoft response
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| Speaking at the Google Zeitgeist conference in Hertfordshire, hosted by the
| internet company's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, chief
| executive, said: "After this press conference the three of us will meet and
| decide what our response is."
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article3965206.ece
Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo search: source
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| Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a
| minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a
| person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1539081620080519
Recent:
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
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| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
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