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Microsoft, Yahoo reportedly talk about search deal
The Sunday Times of London reported that Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo and could be crafting a $20 billion deal that would give it the troubled Internet company's search operations.
The deal would be part of a complex transaction that would throw Microsoft's support to a new Yahoo management team. That team apparently would be headed by former AOL chief Jonathan Miller and former Fox Interactive Media head Ross Levinsohn, the London paper reported. Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the management team and get more than a 30 percent stake in Yahoo, the report said. It would receive a 10-year deal to manage the search business and a two-year option to buy it for $20 billion. Yahoo would still run its e-mail, messaging and content services. A Microsoft spokesman said late Saturday the company would not comment beyond what it has said in the past, that it would be open to the possibility of a "search collaboration." Meanwhile, Levinsohn told technology blog Venture Beat on Saturday night there was no truth to the report.Copyright © 2008 The Seattle Times Company
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