Microsoft bids $44.6B for Yahoo!

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Jed K Wrote:Apparently Yahoo! partners with Google:

• Microsoft apparently out of picture
• Icahn has been hoping to engineer a sale to Microsoft
• The fate of Yahoo!'s board to be determined at August 1 annual meeting
• "I am happy to be helping them to stay independent," Google co-founder says
  

Source and full article @ http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/13/y...index.html

Google is doing this for their own good. A yahoo/microsoft merger could have threatened them, even though i don't think Google will be overthrown in the search engine sector for many years to come.