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Microsoft Bids for Yahoo in Effort to Gain on Google

Microsoft has made a $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, an aggressive move by the software giant to gain market share on the Internet and compete with Google.

Microsoft and Yahoo have talked about merging for years. This time, a hostile but very rich offer could seal the deal.

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