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MicroHoo Search Deal Faces DOJ Scrutiny, CEO Bartz Would Have Let MSFT Buy All Of Yahoo
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| And in a CNBC interview Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz says she would have
| accepted the Microsoft takeover offer that then CEO Jerry Yang and the
| Yahoo board rejected. (That would have had a tougher time with regulators
| than the search-only deal now before them.) Bartz also asserted that
| Yahoo was still in the search business by controlling the search
| experience around Bing results
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http://searchengineland.com/microhoo-search-deal-faces-doj-scrutiny-bartz-would-have-let-msft-buy-all-of-yahoo-25637
DoJ cranks up Microhoo review
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| The US Department of Justice has expanded its review of the Microhoo
| search pact.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/11/albert_gonzalez_enters_plea/
Microsoft, Yahoo Face In-Depth Review of Search Deal
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aGrfNDYgxGh4
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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Sells $2 Million YHOO Shares
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| Investors unhappy as Yahoo boss Bartz earns $2m from share sales from the
| Guardian reports that Yahooâs CEO sold $2 million worth of shares since March of
| this year. Clearly, Yahoo investors are not happy that the CEO would make such a
| significant sale when the company continues to struggle to find its place.
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http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-ceo-carol-bartz-selling-out-2-million-yhoo-shares-sold-25322
Angry Yahoo CEO memo leaks, Icahn selling
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| An unhappy memo from Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz was published Tuesday, a day
| after investor Carl Icahn revealed he recently sold about 13 million shares
| in the company.
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| The Bartz memo published in Dow Jones All Things Digital blog urges employees
| at the Sunnyvale company (NASDAQ:YHOO) to get back to work and stop debating
| the merits of her recent search deal with Microsoft Corp.
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| In it she tells employees to "get out of the sugar low - we have work to do.
| Stop staring at our navels, stop arguing with each other. Stop debate,
| debate, debate, and let's focus on the competition."
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http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2009/08/31/daily15.html
Yahoo gets hard look from investors following deal
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| Even as the broader market rallied, Yahoo shares dropped as much as 6 percent
| on Thursday. The stock recovered a little in late trading, but is still down
| 14 percent since the agreement was announced on Wednesday morning.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE56T6H220090730
Yahoo Chief Gets âNo Confidenceâ Vote on Search Deal (Update3)
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| âItâs a tremendous vote of no confidence in Carol Bartz,â said Larry Haverty,
| a portfolio manager with Gamco Investors Inc. in Rye, New York. The firm
| manages about $20 billion, including 1.6 million Yahoo shares. âThis is
| anything but a boatload of cash.â
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aRcErip5RD1w
Microsoft-Yahoo Pact To Face Regulator Scrutiny
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| The new Internet-search venture between Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Yahoo Inc.
| (YHOO) is likely to face considerable scrutiny from federal antitrust
| regulators, according to government officials and analysts.
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| The Justice Department will look at the deal carefully to be sure it doesn't
| harm competition by allowing two top Internet companies to team up.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090729-716340.html
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