Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion To Buy Yahoo

In a bid to halt Google's growing dominance online, Microsoft has offered to buy struggling Internet giant Yahoo for $44.6 billion, an acquisition that would unite the world's most influential software company with the Web's most-trafficked site.
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Peter Whoriskey and David Cho

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