Yang’s Exit Not Likely to Soften Microsoft’s Anti-Acquisition Stance
Nearly 10 months after making an aggressive move to acquire struggling Internet portal Yahoo, Microsoft no longer has any interest in buying the company. At the software giant’s annual meeting on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft is “done with all acquisition discussions” with Yahoo. Ballmer did, however, say the maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system is open to a partnership of some kind around the two companies’ search businesses: Windows Live Search and Yahoo Search.
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Yang’s Exit Not Likely to Soften Microsoft’s Anti-Acquisition Stance
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