Microsoft secretly bought Yahoo shares?

The software giant has discussed many times about buying shares of rival Yahoo to deal with Google, the Wall Street Journal said.

Quoting a "close" source, the shocking article said that although controversies over stock purchases have not yet yielded any concrete results, Microsoft top officials have left open the possibility. shaking hands with Yahoo. This solution is thought to be due to increasing pressure from shareholders, when rival Google is on the rise with wind and Microsoft is growing slowly.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft and Yahoo negotiated a number of alliance forms throughout the year. Even the possibility that Microsoft will sell the entire MSN network to Yahoo in exchange for a proportion of the corresponding shares from this huge Web portal is also put on the dissection table.

Last year, Microsoft negotiated with Time Warner to buy AOL Internet shares. However, Microsoft not only failed to persuade Time Warner but it was also a "shock" when Time Warner decided to sell Google 5% of AOL shares.

Earlier, Microsoft had hoped AOL would use MSN search engine as its default tool, thereby creating momentum for its fledgling paid search business.

Microsoft's financial results announced last week were lower than Wall Street's expectations as the giant invested more heavily in the software services business.

Analysts said Microsoft plans to spend an additional $ 2 billion in the upcoming fiscal year (starting July 1) and most of them are used to build free Web services, advertising support. .

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