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    News - Microsoft said to be considering acquiring Yahoo once more

    The software giant could get Yahoo for half the price it was prepared to pay three years ago.
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    Re: News - Microsoft said to be considering acquiring Yahoo once more

    So to enhance its presence in the Search market (that it has failed to do) it attempts to buy a company with a declining share of the search market?


    Right....
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    Re: News - Microsoft said to be considering acquiring Yahoo once more

    Quote Originally Posted by dave87 View Post
    So to enhance its presence in the Search market (that it has failed to do) it attempts to buy a company with a declining share of the search market? Right....
    +1 on this, I was really annoyed when I discovered the browser on my (Android ffs!) HP printer display is linked to Yahoo.

    Or as one colleague called it ... ya-who?

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