Yahoo and Microsoft, which held a marathon series of fruitless merger and partnership negotiations last year, have restarted discussions, this time over a possible advertising agreement, a person briefed on those discussions said Friday.Conversations between the two sides have been scant since Carol Bartz was named Yahoo’s chief executive in January. But they have started anew recently, and Ms. Bartz met with Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, last week, said the person briefed on the discussions, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity because the talks were confidential.
http://nytimes.com/2009/04/11/technology/companies/11soft.htmlMicrosoft and Yahoo revive talks as Google leaps ahead
Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks over a possible search engine partnership less than a year after Bill Gates’ software group failed in a $44bn (£21.3bn) takeover attempt on the internet company.Although there is no suggestion that Microsoft’s failed bid will be resurrected, the two companies are believed to be discussing ways they can link up to combat the growing power of their chief rival, Google.
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