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Microsoft wants you to make a difference

The i’m Initiative from Microsoft makes helping social causes easy. Every time you use Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft will share a portion of their advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective social cause organizations. They’ve set no cap on the amount they’ll donate to each organization. The sky’s the [...]

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Microsoft withdraws Yahoo bid

Microsoft announced today that it was withdrawing their offer to acquire Yahoo. Microsoft raised its bid from $31/share to $33/share (that’s an extra $5 billion) but Yahoo didn’t want to settle for less than $37/share. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer also confirmed that they will not go hostile by taking their offer directly to Yahoo’s stakeholders. [...]

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Microsoft getting closer and closer to Yahoo! purchase… YES!

Yahoo Inc posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday but failed to do well enough to convince many on Wall Street that Microsoft Corp needs to raise its takeover bid. “Our board and management team continue to be open to any and all alternatives, including a Microsoft deal. ” Said CEO Jerry Yang.

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