{"id":8846,"date":"2009-07-19T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-19T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T13:46:00","slug":"microsoft-and-yahoo-deal-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/8846-microsoft-and-yahoo-deal-close.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and Yahoo! deal close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg financial news service on Friday reported that the two companies are expected to reach a deal soon. The companies refused to comment on the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Google controls about 65% of the US Internet search, Yahoo is ranked a distant second with 19.6% and Microsoft is third with 8.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft almost bought Yahoo! last year for 47.5-billion but the move was scuttled at the last minute by Yahoo! co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang, who later resigned following widespread criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has since refused to revive the buyout offer, but Yang&rsquo;s successor Carol Bartz confirmed in May that the two companies were holding talks on search-engine collaboration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=182835\"><strong>Microsoft &amp; Yahoo deal<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and Yahoo! are close to signing a deal to collaborate on search and advertising in a bid to challenge Google\u2019s overwhelming dominance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}