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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo said Wednesday that it would limit to 90 days the time it holds some personally identifiable information related to searches to address growing concerns from privacy advocates, policy makers and government regulators.
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Yahoo’s new data retention policy is the most restrictive among major [...]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ivory Investment Management LP, which owns 1.5 percent of shares of Yahoo Inc, urged the Internet company to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp, saying such a deal could more than double Yahoo’s value.
Ivory proposed in a letter to Yahoo’s board that [...]

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The financier Carl C. Icahn and his entities bought about 6.78 million more shares of Yahoo stock last week, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.
The filing said the companies bought the shares from Nov. 24 to Nov. 26 “because they believed that the shares were undervalued.”
Mr. Icahn, who joined the Yahoo board [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO — It takes only a glimmer of hope to excite Yahoo shareholders these days.
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Jonathan F. Miller, former chief executive of AOL.
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Investors bid up shares in Yahoo by 7 percent on Tuesday after The Wall Street Journal reported that Jonathan Miller, the former chief [...]

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Yahoo should call Microsoft’s bluff. That may sound like a churlish suggestion given the software behemoth’s apparent disdain for its onetime Internet sweetheart. But everyone continues to lose ground to Google in search. Yahoo says it could put an end to that if it just had scale. [...]

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In a move likely to fuel speculation over Yahoo’s search for a new chief executive, the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has bought close to seven million additional shares of the Internet company, according to regulatory filings Friday.
Mr. Icahn, who threatened to oust Yahoo’s board this summer after it rejected a deal with Microsoft, [...]

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Steven A. Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, told shareholders on Wednesday that the company was no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo, setting off a 21 percent decline in Yahoo’s share price.
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SAN FRANCISCO — There’s a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo.
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Jerry Yang said Monday he would resign as Yahoo chief.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said he was stepping down.
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang listened to a question at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Wednesday, [...]

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SYDNEY (Reuters) — Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, dismissed speculation on Friday that the company might still be interested in buying Yahoo, setting off a 13 percent decline in Yahoo’s share price.
“We moved on,” Mr. Ballmer told a business luncheon in Sydney on Friday, when asked for the company’s plans after a [...]

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