Yahoo!: Microsoft Talks Officially Dead
NEW YORK Yahoo! has declared that any chance of a Microsoft acquisition or search partnership is now officially off the table, just as rumors began to swirl that the embattled portal is set to announce an expanded partnership with Google.
In a statement today, Yahoo! officials said that after months of speculation, as well as multiple formal meetings between the two companies, talks have officially concluded. Though Microsoft had in recent weeks publicly backed off its original effort to buy Yahoo! outright, the two companies were exploring a search advertising relationship — including the possibility that Yahoo! would dump its own Panama search ad platform, with Microsoft taking over Yahoo!’s search ads sales.
That
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