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    Microsoft is officially looking into buying Yahoo

    The Microsoft courtship of Yahoo has officially moved from rumor to confirmed. Microsoft and Yahoo have taken a very early step in the buying process. Microsoft and Yahoo have signed a nondisclosure agreement, which means Microsoft can now poke around at Yahoo’s financials to see if it wants to make an offer.

    There have been several recent rumors of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo, as well as several other possible suitors such as AOL. While other companies may be interested in buying Yahoo none of the other big name companies have signed a nondisclosure.  Now that Microsoft is able to look over Yahoo’s books it can decide what exactly it wants to do moving forward.

    It still isn’t clear if Microsoft will be buying Yahoo outright or if it will partner with equity firms and make an investment in the search giant.  A couple of private equity companies have also signed nondisclosures with Yahoo, but their interest looks to be in making an investment rather than making a purchase.

    There are several reasons why Microsoft should be interested in Yahoo, most notably would be search. Yahoo powers the sales behind Microsoft’s Bing search results, and we are sure Microsoft wouldn’t want someone else taking that over. It is also possible that Microsoft will want to intergrate Skype into some of Yahoo’s services, such as yahoo messenger.

    No matter what ends up happening Yahoo needs some form of help, either from Microsoft or someone else. Even Yahoo’s iconic San Francisco billboard is feeling the crunch. This is only the first step in the process, and by no means is a for sure signal that Microsoft will actually buy Yahoo.

    This article was originally posted on Digital Trends

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    • Cameron  •  6 mths ago
      It is only fitting that one piece of %$&* company buys another.
    • Kat  •  6 mths ago
      If Microsoft gets its grubby hands into Yahoo, then it will definitely time to drop it. Yahoo has become bad enough all on its own and it certainly doesn't need Gates' flunkies to help grind it into the dust.
    • armando  •  6 mths ago
      intresting
    • Groucho Marxist  •  Guangzhou, China  •  6 mths ago
      If you think Yahoo is stupid now, wait until it is run by MicroSerfs.
    • FAH KING GOOD TIME  •  San Diego, United States  •  6 mths ago
      miyahoosoft, scary aint it
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        Your scary,,,,
      • Dsf 6 mths ago
        I think it will be Micro ho
    • Loren  •  Fort Wayne, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Google will be my new home page if Microsoft has any control in Yahoo. I hate MS Bling, the little I used it it gave me incorrect results.
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        You forgot the "$" in MS Bling (M$ Bling)... you troll! Have a nice day. Yahoo! search is just as bad as Bing so get over it.
      • Dsf 6 mths ago
        yahoo sucks,bing sucks.
      • bill 6 mths ago
        Google sells ALL of your activity to anyone with cash.
    • Dsf  •  Intercourse, United States  •  6 mths ago
      yeah, then The Pro from xbox forum will start banning people on yahoo news. well, I don't care , yahoo is struggling for too long, they #$%$ off too many of their customers, it's about time another company fix their issues. I guess it will be renamed Micro-ho
    • The Wiz  •  Indianapolis, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Microsoft is officially looking into buying Yahoo....

      Bad timing for Yahoo! since it's stocks are going to drop faster than Kim Kardashian's underwear in an Internet Porn Video come December 1st due to Yahoo's forceably switching all users to use Yahoo! Profile instead of Yahoo! Pulse and further requiring everyone to install Yahoo! Messenger on their computers so Yahoo can 'identify' them!
    • Dr. Love  •  Los Angeles, United States  •  6 mths ago
      after all microsoft can any company that they want and become manolopy thats insane, shouldnt happen but from the first time that microsoft try to by yahoo and the deal didnt go through, yahoo stocks went low?
      • J 6 mths ago
        Go back to school and learn how to write a complete sentence with proper spelling, Dr. Dumb.
    • Axe  •  Las Cruces, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Well if Microsoft does what it usual does, it will strip Yahoo for all its innovations, and then quietly destroy it to help promote it's own services (Bing). Well I guess Google just became my new search engine of choice.
      • A Yahoo! User 6 mths ago
        You use Yahoo! over Google currently? Get used to it and welcome to Google! The search engine everyone has been using for the last 10 years.
      • Dsf 6 mths ago
        why Google isn't your search engine of choice right now? it is beyond me people still using yahoo search. Google is far more superior, you can say it is the future skynet
    • bill  •  6 mths ago
      First thing to do would be fire the )(^(&^$(&*%&$*4785#&$#%^* working there now.
    • almostperfectunion  •  6 mths ago
      hey guys, this will create more jobs!...for China and India
    • Yan  •  Haikou, China  •  6 mths ago
      yahoo's search is the only foreign search in china,sadly google had been forbiden by our government,the main page of google is a image and we cant surf it.
      fortunately we cant search any eroticism through the native search baidu,but yahoo can do it.
      lol
    • Joe  •  Seattle, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Microsoft is irrelevant. Yahoo is irrelevant. This is irrelevance squared.
      • Abe 6 mths ago
        And yet you're posting on a Yahoo! forum. Loser.
    • Big boss  •  Dubai, United Arab Emirates  •  6 mths ago
      It is good that microsoft will buy yahoo, but it is very important that microsoft will develop it as yahoo has many searching compititors that may lead to lossing of their users.
    • HSL  •  6 mths ago
      Yahoo is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender organization. Is that something M$ really wants to buy?
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