SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Talks between Microsoft Corp. over a possible combination are no longer active, according to a media report late Friday. The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site that in recent months the two companies discussed a possible merger, but that the discussions are no longer active. The two companies may still explore other ways of cooperating, the Journal reported. Yahoo shares closed 10% higher at $30.98 on Friday following earlier reports that the company was in talks to possibly be acquired by Microsoft in a $50 billion deal
NEW YORK, May 4 (Reuters) - U.S. stock futures pointed to a higher open on Friday on deal news, including a report Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) is intensifying its pursuit of a deal to buy Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile , Research) and before jobs data.
The widely anticipated monthly U.S. payrolls report, due at 8:30 a.m (1230 GMT), will be scrutinized for further clues about the outlook for interest rates. It is forecast to show employers created 100,000 jobs in April, compared with 180,000 in March.
Yahoo’s shares rose 15 percent in Europe after the New York Post reported Microsoft, the world’s biggest software company, has asked the Web media company to reenter formal talks
A lot of search marketers recently noticed that the “link:” command isn’t working at Microsoft’s Windows Live search. Well, it’s not a glitch, but a deliberate shutdown by MSFT…
We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, we have made the tough call to block all queries with these operators. Huh?
Ever since Microsoft launched its own search engine, we’ve heard their claims that they’d gain ground on Google and compete in anywhere from 3-5 years.
Well, as Business Week points out, in the two years since Microsoft dumped Inktomi, it’s not exactly headed in the right direction.
In February, 2005, Microsoft’s MSN Search accounted for nearly 14% of all Web searches, compared with a 46% share for search leader Google, ac
Google searching “microsoft”: 39,500,000 results
Google searching “google”: 52,800,000 results
MSN searching “microsoft”: 80,139,835 results
MSN searching “google”: 648 results
I can understand leaning a little more one way or the other, but 648 versus 52 million? Give me a friggin break.
