google vs microsoft

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WASHINGTON — It could be payback time.

Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo (February 4, 2008)

Google Assails Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo (February 3, 2008)

Yahoo Offer Is Strategy Shift for Microsoft (February 2, 2008)

Eyes on Google, Microsoft Bids $44 Billion for Yahoo (February 2, 2008)

Microsoft's Yahoo Bid

Full coverage of Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo, who is advising, who else might be in play and where the bid goes from here.

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Senator Herb Kohl and Representative John Conyers, below, indicated willingness to hold hearings on the proposed deal.

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An expensive legal and political campaign last year by Microsoft helped delay completion of Google’s $3.1 billion bid

for the online advertising company DoubleClick. Microsoft filed briefs against the deal in the United States and abroad,testified against it in Congress, and worked with a public relations firm to generate opposition.

Now Google is preparing to strike back.

With Microsoft bidding nearly $45 billion to buy Yahoo, Google has begun to lay the groundwork to try to delay, and possibly derail, any deal.

Google executives have asked company lobbyists to develop a political strategy to challenge the acquisition, which could threaten Google’s dominance

of Internet advertising. Google’s top legal officer posted a statement Sunday that criticized the proposed deal.

Spokesmen for the two companies in Washington declined to comment Monday about a looming legal and political battle,

which has yet to fully emerge and is likely to stay below the radar at least until the control of Yahoo seems clear.

Moreover, some antitrust specialists and government officials said Google might tread carefully in opposing any deal since it could backfire.

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[LoKz]

they are fighting for it lol what lames... :)