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<description><![CDATA[The prospect of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, with all its questions on how to "integrate" the two companies, is again bubbling to the...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Runaway oil prices blew past $130 a barrel for the first time Wednesday and kept going, while gasoline prices persisted in their own relentless climb, rising above $3.80 a gallon. Supply worries, rising demand and a slumping dollar are conspiring to make filling up the car - and paying for just about everything else - a growing burden for Americans.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve today sharply lowered its projection for economic growth this year, citing blows from the housing and credit debacles...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An assembly line worker charged with vandalizing a military helicopter at a Boeing plant was upset about a job transfer and cut a bundle of about 70 electrical wires during his last shift on the Chinook line, federal investigators said Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Merck agrees to $58M settlement over Vioxx ad claims
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<description><![CDATA[Merck & Co. has agreed to pay $58 million as part of a multistate settlement of allegations that its ads for the once-popular painkiller Vioxx deceptively played down the health risks.]]></description>
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<title>Seattle travel forecasting startup lands at Microsoft as Live Search Farecast, may get cash-back treatment</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In addition to announcing its Live Search cashback program, Microsoft today is providing details on how it's incorporating Farecast, the Seattle company it acquired for about $115 million in April. ]]></description>
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<title>Reactions to Microsoft&#x27;s pay-for-search strategy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Microsoft Live Search cashback program, first reported by SearchEngineWatch Tuesday and described in this story today, is being promoted on the company's Live.com page now. Chairman Bill Gates is on stage at the company's advertising event now and will formally announce the effort, according to a press release. 

The reaction online has been loud. Here's a sampling: ]]></description>
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<title>Arianna Huffington credits Ballmer&#x27;s egg-dodging skills</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Speaking to an influential audience of Microsoft advertisers on the company's campus today, Arianna Huffington started out by asking the crowd whether there were any Hungarians in the audience. Then she asked if there were any eggs. ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft Advertising is new brand for, well, Microsoft advertising</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brian McAndrews, kicking off advance08, Microsoft's advertising summit, announced today the company's new brand for its broad advertising efforts: Microsoft Advertising. ]]></description>
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<title>Top Microsoft exec tells troops company has &#x22;many options&#x22; to accelerate online strategy </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft just distributed an email from Platforms and Services Division President Kevin Johnson putting the new Yahoo proposal -- reportedly related to Internet search -- in the context of the company's broader efforts to build a profitable business in online services and advertising. 

The full text of the message follows. ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft pursuing new deal with Yahoo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft this afternoon said it has restarted its pursuit of Yahoo. The company issued a statement:

"In light of developments since the withdrawal of the Microsoft proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business. Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo! an alternative that would involve a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo! Microsoft is not proposing to make a new bid to acquire all of Yahoo! at this time, but reserves the right to reconsider that alternative depending on future developments and discussions that may take place with Yahoo! or discussions with shareholders of Yahoo! or Microsoft or with other third parties." 

Update, 1:48 p.m.: Microsoft dropped its offer for Yahoo on May 3 after offering up to $47.5 billion to acquire the Internet giant in a deal that Yahoo's board of directors never warmed to. The company first began its pursuit of Yahoo in February as a way to quickly catch up with Google in the business of Internet search and online advertising. 

Last week, billionaire financier Carl Icahn disclosed that he had purchased 59 million shares and options of Yahoo, taking about a 4.4 percent stake in the company, and forwarded a slate of candidates to replace the current board of directors at the company's July 3 stockholder meeting. 

"It is quite obvious that Microsoft's bid of $33 per share is a superior alternative to Yahoo's prospects on a standalone basis," Ichan wrote in a letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock. 

Microsoft provided no additional details on the nature of its new alternative transaction. Yahoo has been exploring the outsourcing of its U.S. search advertising to Google -- an arrangement that raised antitrust concerns and was one of the key factors cited by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when he withdrew his offer three weeks ago. 

Icahn, too, cautioned Yahoo's board against pursuing any "strategic alternatives" that would "impede a future Microsoft merger" without allowing shareholders to weigh in, at the least.

Yahoo's shares did not tumble precipitously in the days and weeks after Microsoft withdrew its bid, indicating the market's expectation that Microsoft would come back to the table. This despite repeated statements from Microsoft that the company had moved on.

Judging from this afternoon's statement, the company clearly has not. While Microsoft highlighted this undefined alternative transaction -- and said it has been proposed to Yahoo -- it also noted that an outright acquisition is still possible "depending on future developments and discussions that may take place with Yahoo! or discussions with shareholders of Yahoo! or Microsoft or with other third parties." 

Translation: If Ichan successfully replaces Yahoo's board with a slate amenable to an acquisition, Microsoft could still be a buyer. 

Microsoft concluded its short message today with this caution: "There of course can be no assurance that any transaction will result from these discussions." 

As of 1:45 p.m., Yahoo had not issued a statement in response. 

Update, 2:43 p.m.: Early indications are that the alternative transaction could involve the purchase of Yahoo's search business. 

Kara Swisher quoted unnamed sources at both companies saying as much. 

Google has continued to widen its already huge lead over both Yahoo and Microsoft in U.S. Internet search. In March, Google had 59.8 percent of the market, according to comScore. The company has an even more dominant share in some other markets, such as Europe, where more than 79 percent of March searches were performed using Google. Yahoo and Microsoft had less than 4 percent, combined.   

Internet search is important because the majority of online advertising revenue currently comes through advertising sold next to search results. 

Update, 2:57 p.m.: Microsoft just distributed an e-mail from Platforms and Services Division President Kevin Johnson putting the new Yahoo proposal in the context of the company's broader efforts to build a profitable business in online services and advertising. Read it here.]]></description>
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<title>April console sales don&#x27;t get &#x22;GTA IV&#x22; jumpstart, but who benefited more? </title>
<link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/05/april_console_sales_dont_get_gta_iv_jumpstart_but.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Nintnedo Wii came closer to breaking the 10 million unit U.S. sales mark in April, vastly outselling Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3, combined, according to NPD Group figures released this afternoon. That performance was despite the April 29 launch of the biggest title of the year for the latter two consoles -- "Grand Theft Auto IV." ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft Windows on XO laptop later this summer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is finally putting Windows on the One Laptop Per Child low-cost XO machines aimed at children in poor countries. Here's coverage of the development, which had been anticipated for some time, from The Associated Press.]]></description>
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<title>Gossip: Microsoft CEO Summit spouses cooking with Tom Douglas </title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Bill Gates hobnobbed with the chief executives invited to his CEO Summit yesterday, their spouses were getting a personal cooking lesson with Seattle restaurateur and chef Tom Douglas, according to a source familiar with planning for the hush-hush Microsoft event.  

Updated, 5:43 p.m.: After the jump, details on a Douglas-led tour of Pike Place Market and what was on the lunchtime menu. ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft quietly watching as Ichan raids Yahoo</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The billionaire financier Carl Ichan today disclosed his 4.4 percent stake in Yahoo and his plans to oust the company's directors in a bid to take control and sell Yahoo to Microsoft. In his letter to Yahoo, sent 12 days after Microsoft dropped its bid to acquire the company, Ichan writes that Yahoo's board "acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft."

Microsoft, meanwhile, is quietly watching the scenario unfold.  ]]></description>
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<title>Xbox 360 cracks 10 million sales in U.S.</title>
<link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/05/xbox_360_cracks_10_million_sales_in_us.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft this afternoon touted the 10 million unit milestone for its current-generation game console, noting that it's the first of the three major current-generation consoles to do so. It did not note that the Xbox 360 has been on the market a year longer than the Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii. The latter had 8.8 million units sold through March, according to The NPD Group. 

Also, Microsoft was so close to reaching 10 million units at the last NPD report -- 9,896,600 through March, per NPD -- that it would have been more astonishing if the console didn't make it to the milestone, particularly in the month that saw the biggest entertainment launch in history with "Grand Theft Auto: IV." ]]></description>
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<title>Gates looks to the future with top CEOs, unveils &#x27;Touch Wall&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates conceived of the CEO Summit 12 years ago as an exclusive forum to discuss technology and other issues worrying the business world's elite. It's also an excellent sales opportunity for Microsoft. This year's event kicked off last night at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in downtown Seattle. ]]></description>
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<title>A conversation with Stephen Elop, new president of Microsoft Business Division</title>
<link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2008/05/a_conversation_with_stephen_elop_new_president_of.html</link>
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ERIKA SCHULTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Elop, the new president of the Microsoft Business Division, said one of his biggest surprises since joining the company is "the extent of innovation."

Now that Jeff Raikes' move to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has been made public, the man replacing him as president of the $16.4 billion-a-year Microsoft Business Division is making the rounds. 

Stephen Elop, 44, took the job in January. Here's a brief profile of Elop we ran at the time. On Tuesday, Elop sat down to talk about how he's settling in, impressions of Microsoft and the challenges facing his part of the company. ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft vet Raikes to Gates Foundation as CEO</title>
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DEAN RUTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Raikes at his Microsoft office in 2006.Bill Gates is bringing one of his most trusted Microsoft generals with him to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Jeff Raikes will become CEO of the world's largest philanthropy beginning Sept. 2, the foundation announced this morning. ]]></description>
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<title>Microsoft appealing record EU antitrust fine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a curt statement, Microsoft said Friday it is appealing the 899 million Euro ($1.3 billion) antitrust fine leveled by the European Union. "We are filing this appeal in a constructive effort to seek clarity from the Court. We will not be saying anything further," the company stated. ]]></description>
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