Agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo about to be concluded?
According to U.S. media reports, several Microsoft executives are currently in Silicon Valley to finalize a search agreement with Yahoo.
Several Microsoft executives are said to be in Silicon Valley to finalize a search deal with Yahoo. This is reported by All Things Digital, the IT conference section of the Wall Street Journal. They are said to include three top managers responsible for the online sector: Yusuf Mehdi, Satya Nadella and Qi Lu. It is said that the negotiations are "only about the small print". The contract could be finalized and made public within a week.
Yahoo boss Carol Bartz said in May that she would be open to a search agreement if she could believe in the partner's technology and it brought "boatloads of money". Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been hinting for a year that he would like to cooperate with Yahoo when it comes to search, even if he is no longer considering a complete takeover of Yahoo, as was mooted in February 2008. Since then, Microsoft has significantly advanced its search technology with Bing through its own research. (Source: Zdnet.de)
Yahoo boss Carol Bartz said in May that she would be open to a search agreement if she could believe in the partner's technology and it brought "boatloads of money". Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been hinting for a year that he would like to cooperate with Yahoo when it comes to search, even if he is no longer considering a complete takeover of Yahoo, as was mooted in February 2008. Since then, Microsoft has significantly advanced its search technology with Bing through its own research. (Source: Zdnet.de)
