Microsoft to Yahoo: Two days to respond or else!
Yahoo is scrambling to figure out a response to the overture, but is looking for any other option but Microsoft. Source: BoomTown
How Jerry's guide to the world wide web became Yahoo
Instead of finishing their doctoral studies, Jerry Yang and David Filo began messing around on the world wide web - still, at the time, a largely unexplored phenomenon. Source: Guardian
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google: timeline
The rise of the three media companies over the past three decades. Source: Guardian
Microsoft/Yahoo ad threat to rivals
The combined businesses could provide a staunch competitor to Google in key international markets in the global battle for control of the $80bn-a-year online advertising market. Source: Guardian
What would a Microsoft-Yahoo deal mean for web users?
The implications for the two web giants' services and their users. Source: Guardian
Microsoft and Yahoo - potted histories
The histories of the computer giants - and the backgrounds of the key players on both sides. Source: Guardian
The problems of merging Microsoft and Yahoo
Trying to put two companies together almost always leads to tears, the destruction of value and, of course, job losses, and the result is never quite as good as the separate pieces. Source: Guardian
Analysis: Why Microsoft has made its move on Yahoo
Microsoft's $44.6bn (£22.5bn) offer for Yahoo confirms months of speculation that the two companies would join forces to tackle Google's domination of the online advertising market. Source: Guardian
Microsoft's letter to the Yahoo board
The full text. Source: Guardian
Microsoft challenges Google with audacious $44.6bn bid for rival Yahoo
Microsoft has launched an audacious $44.6bn bid for internet rival Yahoo in a deal designed to create an online advertising powerhouse to rival market leader Google. Source: Guardian
Podcast special: Microsoft and Yahoo
We ponder the whys and wherefores - and leave you wondering what $44bn really looks like. Source: Guardian
What would a combined Microsoft-Yahoo look like?
And how it would compare to Google? Source: TechCrunch
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