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Internet, Media Stars Line Up for Yahoo

Google is doing everything possible to make Microsofts job hard in this takeover. Google has agreed to help out Yahoo by participating in an unusual test that will gauge how much more advertising Google can sell for Yahoo!

The two-week experiment will be limited to ads posted alongside a small percentage of Yahoo's online search results in the United States.

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Stock Symbol: YHOO YAHOO INC Stock Price: $27.6601 Todays Change: -0.0899 (-0.32%)

Is Cloud Computing Microsoft's Long Term Vision: An arms race with Google and Yahoo in the cross fire?

Excerpt from the article says it best: "There’s been so much commentary on the proposed mega merger, it borders on overwhelming. Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo. While I wait, one wonder keeps hitting me: is Microsoft’s collective head in the cloud?

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Microsoft vs. Google - The Coming War

Question is, on which ground is the main fight going to be? If Microsoft can use this merger with Yahoo to redefine what both companies stand for, and attract a new generation of clickers, they just might stand a chance to takeout Google in the search arena before Google gets a chance to use web based applications to pull the rug out from under Microsoft's PC based empire.

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Google Misses By A Penny, Does It Matter In The Long Term?

 

Well if you are a long term investor no, but the short term could be a little rough as people digest the numbers. First of all, let me just say that most companies would kill for these kind of numbers, but Google is not most companies.

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Stock Symbol: GOOG GOOGLE Stock Price: $580.0701 Todays Change: -0.9299 (-0.16%)