News Corp in deal talk with Yahoo: reports
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with Yahoo Inc to fend off Microsoft Corp's $42.1 billion bid, according to several reports.
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Yahoo Inc's  board met by  telephone on Friday and discussed strategy for getting  Microsoft Corp  to raise its $42 billion offer for the  company and the possibility of hiring Google Inc to run Yahoo's  search, the Wall Street Journal said.
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Yahoo's  board members are  formally discussing Microsoft Corp's  $42 billion  unsolicited offer for the company and have scheduled an  in-person meeting for next week, the All Things Digital blog  reported on Friday.
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Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off&#160;Microsoft&#39;s bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.
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Global media giant News Corp. has proposed swapping social networking site MySpace with Internet giant Yahoo in return for a 25-percent stake in the enlarged group, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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According to a story by The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo's board plans to send a letter to Microsoft on Monday saying that the software vendor's $44.6 billion merger offer "massively undervalues" the online services company.
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Microsoft Corp on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N)  has not yet reached a deal to buy Dow Jones & Co. Inc.   and discussions continue, representatives for Dow Jones and its  controlling Bancroft family said on Friday.
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Yahoo Inc's  board  believes Microsoft Corp's  unsolicited bid of $44.6  billion to acquire Yahoo "massively undervalues" the company  and directors are set to reject the offer, the Wall Street  Journal reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source.
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Dow Jones & Co. Inc.  and  Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Corp. (NWSa.N) are close to a pact that  would protect the journalistic independence of The Wall Street  Journal if News Corp. acquired the media company, according to  newspaper reports on Sunday.
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The discussions stem from an approach that Yahooâs bankers made to News Corporation in an effort to find a âwhite knightâ and avoid a hostile takeover by Microsoft.
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Social-networking Web site  Facebook.com is in serious talks to sell itself to Internet  media company Yahoo Inc. for an amount that could approach $1  billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc is reportedly in talks with News Corp to combine their Web properties, but Wall Street analysts rained scorn on the likelihood of a deal that can fend off Microsoft Corp's $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo.
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Yahoo is exploring a possible alliance with media conglomerate News Corp. to stave off a take-over by software giant Microsoft, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Dow Jones & Co. , in talks for a  takeover by News Corp. (NWSa.N), met with supermarket magnate  Ron Burkle and Internet entrepreneur Brad Greenspan on Tuesday  in an effort to find an alternative offer, a source familiar  with the situation said.
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Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible partnership with News Corp. in its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp. or prod its unsolicited suitor into raising its current takeover bid, according to a person familiar with the talks.
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The software maker lets a few details out during an employee Web cast to discuss Yahoo bid. It's just one of many product tidbits I expect to come out as part of regulatory filings associated with the offer.