Decision due in Microsoft-EU row

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Microsoft pays $1.2bn for Fast Search

The US software giant Microsoft yesterday agreed to pay $1.2bn (£608m) for the Norwegian technology company Fast Search and Transfer, a leading rival of Britain's Autonomy.

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EU launches new Microsoft probes

The European Commission launches new investigations into whether Microsoft breaks competition laws.

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Microsoft offers to acquire Yahoo

Microsoft offers to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn in cash and shares.

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Microsoft Makes £22bn Offer For Internet Giant Yahoo

Microsoft says it has made a £22.4bn offer for internet giant Yahoo.

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Microsoft bids £22bn for Yahoo

Software giant Microsoft threw down the gauntlet to Google's online dominance today with a $44.6 billion (£22.4 billion) approach for internet search engine Yahoo.


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Microsoft Makes £22bn Offer For Internet Giant Yahoo

Microsoft has made a £22.4bn cash and stock offer for struggling internet firm Yahoo.The software giant said it had offered to buy Yahoo for £15.50 per share.

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Microsoft Makes £22bn Offer For Internet Giant Yahoo

Microsoft has made a £22.4bn cash and stock bid for struggling internet firm Yahoo.The software giant has offered to buy Yahoo for £15.50 per share.

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Microsoft Makes £22bn Offer For Internet Firm Yahoo

Microsoft has made a £22.4bn cash and stock bid for struggling internet firm Yahoo.The software giant has offered to buy Yahoo for £15.50 per share.

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Microsoft Makes £22bn Offer For Internet Firm Yahoo

Microsoft has made a £22.4bn cash and stock bid for struggling internet firm Yahoo offering to buy the company for £15.50 per share.

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Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Microsoft enjoins Yahoo in Google fight

At a conference I attended three years ago, Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, said that the mistake he had made with "search" was to outsource the technology to someone else, which was never going to give a state-of-the-art experience and had led his company to be insufficiently focused on this developing area of the internet.


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Microsoft offers $45bn for Yahoo as it tries to close the gap on Google

Microsoft believed last night that it had snookered Yahoo into agreeing a $44.6bn (£22.7bn) takeover, after 18 months of having its bid overtures rebuffed by the ailing internet giant.


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Google troubled by Microsoft move

Internet giant Google has urged regulators to scrutinise Microsoft's proposed move to buy Yahoo.

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Microsoft bid for Yahoo faces inquiry

The US competition auth-orities will launch an investigation this week into the proposed takeover of the internet portal specialist Yahoo by Microsoft.


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Google tries to initiate counter-bids for Yahoo to scupper Microsoft deal

Yahoo is examining a broad alliance with its internet nemesis Google, as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being swallowed up by Microsoft.


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Yahoo 'Reject' Microsoft Offer Says Wall Street Journal

Yahoo's board is expected to reject Microsoft's $45bn dollar bid for the company - telling the computer giant to up its offer.

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