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• Microsoft-Yahoo deal gets support from ad association

  By Nancy Gohring | 20 October, 2009 06:36

  Microsoft and Yahoo are touting a brief letter that an advertising association sent to the U.S. Department of Justice supporting the search deal proposed by the companies.

• Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo close to search ad deal

  By Jeremy Kirk | 20 July, 2009 08:32

  In less than a week, Microsoft could reach an alliance with Yahoo that could compete better with Google in online search advertising, according to media reports.

• Report: Yahoo's CEO ready for a Microsoft deal

  By Robert McMillan | 28 May, 2009 10:56

  Yahoo's CEO said Wednesday she was open to discussing a Microsoft acquisition, provided the deal were sweet.

• Report: Yahoo Chairman, Microsoft CEO meet in New York

  By Jordan Golson | 17 January, 2009 10:50

  Watching Yahoo and Microsoft dance around each other while trying to work out a merger deal last year was like watching two awkward teenagers at a their first high school formal. But, with cofounder Jerry Yang out as CEO and Carol Bartz in, the dancing days may not be over.

• Report: Ballmer says Yahoo deal better 'sooner than later'

  By Elizabeth Montalbano | 08 December, 2008 07:50

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again voiced support for purchasing Yahoo or its search business, hinting in a published report that a deal between the two companies may be reached before the end of the year.

• Yahoo in precarious position as CEO beckons Microsoft

  By Heather Havenstein | 07 November, 2008 08:25

  Just a day after Google walked away from a proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo, the latter firm's CEO said a takeover by Microsoft would now be the best thing for his company.

• Yang to Ballmer: Baby come back

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 06 November, 2008 14:31

  Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has a message for his Microsoft counterpart Steve Ballmer: Microsoft should buy Yahoo, and Ballmer only has to say the word and Yang will be sitting at the negotiating table.

• Yahoo investor: Sell company to Microsoft for $22 a share

  By Heather Havenstein | 13 October, 2008 08:21

  A Yahoo investor Thursday proposed that Yahoo sell itself to Microsoft for US$22 a share, according to a report from the Reuters news service. Yahoo was trading at $12.84 on Friday.