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Yahoo's CEO pick: Microsoft knows who it's dealing with
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| Yahoo has chosen former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its new chief executive,
| ending its search for Jerry Yang's replacement, according to a Wall Street
| Journal report this morning. Autodesk, known for its computer-assisted design
| software, happens to be a longtime Microsoft partner, so the choice may stir
| new speculation about a possible Yahoo-Microsoft search deal.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Yahoos_CEO_pick_means_Microsoft_knows_who_its_dealing_with37511774.html
Recent:
Icahn huddled with MS over Yahoo! search sale
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| Bazillionare investor Carl Icahn has held talks with Microsoft over the
| purchase of Yahoo!'s search business, according to a regulatory filing.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/icahn_buys_more_yahoo_shares_december_5_2008/
Microsoft hires Yahoo! search boss
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| Buying the company person by person
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| [...]
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| Before joining Yahoo! Lu was a researcher for IBM - he holds 20 US patents.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/05/microsoft_hires_yahooer/
Report: Former Yahoo exec poised to land top Microsoft online position
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| Qi Lu, a former Yahoo search and advertising engineering executive, will soon
| join Microsoft in a top online position, reports AllThingsD's Kara Swisher
| this morning, following up on her earlier reports. This would the new "senior
| lead position" that the company created this summer in its Online Services
| Business.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Report_Yahoo_exec_in_line_for_top_Microsoft_online_position35546054.html
Microsoft taps Yahoo exec to lead Web business, 1st Ld-Writethru, TEC
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| Microsoft Corp. on Thursday tapped a former Yahoo search executive to lead
| its online push, adding to the intrigue surrounding a possible search
| partnership between the two rivals.
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http://www.itworld.com/node/58816
Yahoo feeling the Microsoft nudge
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| Yahoo shares edged up Tuesday as analysts and the company's own major
| shareholder and director Carl Icahn said they longed for the Internet search
| pioneer to entertain a search-only deal with Microsoft.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10082321-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Icahn Says Yahoo Should Do Search Deal With Microsoft
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| Billionaire investor and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) board member Carl Icahn on Monday
| reiterated his position that the Internet giant should consider striking a
| search agreement with rival Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811031831DOWJONESDJONLINE000597_FORTUNE5.htm
Minorities and Corn Growers Rise Against Google-Yahoo.
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| A Microsoft funded PR firm is backing an odd collection of "community" groups
| against cooperation between Google and Yahoo. If Justice is blind, they
| should have a hard time blocking anything.
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http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/202702
Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies
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| The 16 groups wrote to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, warning
| that such mega-mergers usually work to the detriment of consumers and
| minority groups. It was Barnett who warned that European antitrust action
| against Microsoft might chill innovation and discourage competition.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/everyone_against_google_yahoo/
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
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| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
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| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
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| [...]
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| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media – which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them too—is a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
| for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
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