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Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, rebuffing higher sale price (AP)

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A Yahoo sign is seen in Times Square in New York. Microsoft and Yahoo began takeover talks Friday with the US software giant open to raising its 44.6-billion-dollar bid for the struggling Internet pioneer, a source close to the situation told AFP.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Chris Hondros)AP – Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc.


Microsoft withdraws proposal to acquire Yahoo (AFP)

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A man walks past the logo of software company Microsoft at the CeBIT trade fair in Hanover in March 2008. Microsoft withdrew its proposal to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft CEO Stephen Ballmer said in a letter to Yahoo made public Saturday.(AFP/DDP/File/Nigel Treblin)AFP – Microsoft on Saturday yanked its proposal to acquire Yahoo, saying the struggling Internet pioneer refused to budge on price despite the software giant upping its offer to nearly 50 billion dollars.


Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo (Reuters)

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Pedestrians walk past the Time Square Yahoo sign in New York April 7, 2008. . (Joshua Lott/Reuters)Reuters – Microsoft Corp walked away from
its bid to buy Yahoo Inc on Saturday after the Internet company
turned down its offer to raise the price by $5 billion to $47.5
billion.


Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Acquisition (PC World)

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PC World – UPDATE: Microsoft announced Saturday it has dropped its bid for Yahoo, blaming the search firm’s financial demands.

Cell phones top SKorean kids' gift list (AFP)

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File photo shows a South Korean woman walking past mobile handsets displayed at an electronic shop in Seoul. Mobile telephones have topped the list of gifts sought by South Korean children, a survey said Sunday.(AFP/File/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP – Mobile telephones have topped the list of gifts sought by South Korean children, a survey said Sunday.


'Smart' power meters herald future of our electricity use (AP)

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A new Smart Meter is seen at the home of Darrell Brubaker in Elizabethtown, Pa., Thursday, March 20, 2008. Brubaker saved money almost every month, up to about 6 percent off his regular electric bill, after volunteering for a PPL Corp. pilot program made possible by a 'smart' meter. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)AP – Determined to cut his electricity bill, Darrell Brubaker took the usual steps of raising his air conditioner’s thermostat and cooking more on the grill.


Competitive zeal of Ballmer key element in Yahoo chase (AP)

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In this Oct. 18, 2007 file photo of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gestures as he talks at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Microsoft Corp. withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc. on Saturday, scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc. The decision to walk away from the deal came after last-ditch efforts to negotiate a mutually acceptable sale price proved unsuccessful. The talks reached a breaking point after Jerry Yang and David Filo, the co-founders of Sunnyvale-based Yahoo, flew to Seattle in the morning to meet personally with Ballmer. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP – As Yahoo continued to resist Microsoft’s $42 billion takeover offer, a key question was just how far Microsoft’s excitable CEO, Steve Ballmer, was willing to go in hopes of defeating online advertising and search leader Google.


Timeline: Microsoft, Yahoo's merger-and-acquisition dance (AP)

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AP – A chronology of events leading to Microsoft Corp.‘s decision to abandon its offer for Web search and advertising competitor Yahoo Inc.:

Amazon suing New York state over new sales tax law (Reuters)

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A worker checks a shipment of outgoing boxes at the Amazon.com warehouse facility in New Castle, Delaware, November 24, 2006. (Tim Shaffer/Reuters)Reuters – Amazon.com Inc has sued the state
of New York, challenging a new statute requiring Internet
retailers based elsewhere to collect New York sales taxes.