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Yahoo's stock passed under $19.18 (its price before Microsoft made an offer) about two weeks ago.  Now it's hit another significant mark, closing at $18.75 yesterday afternoon.

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Google fears that Microsoft could leverage its dominance of the browser market to promote its search business.

The Internet search leader confirmed the long-rumored browser in a posting Monday on its Web site. The move is likely to heat up its rivalry with Microsoft.

Way back on January 31st, Yahoo's stock closed at $19.18 per share.  Then Microsoft's unsolicited acquisition offer nudged things up towards $29.  Unfortunately for investors, all that progress has been lost.

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It looks like the browser wars may be hotting up as Microsoft has fired its salvo - it seems that by storing our previous search behaviors it's going to beat Google at its own game.

I guess this is a different approach. Cuil appears to be trying the 'if it isn't in America we don't care' approach (sorry guys but that's how it looks elsewhere) and now Microsoft is going to have a go at 'we're going to store all of your searches'.

Maybe as a journalist I'm atypical but I have to say that telling your system that I searched for information on luxury watches last week really won't tell you...

Once upon a time, Microsoft was willing to pay around $45 billion for Yahoo.  All sorts of shenanigans have taken place since then, but the main sum remains untouched, and a new rumor has it that a stock buyback may be in the works.

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The billion-dollar stake Google took in AOL to keep the company out of Microsoft's hands nearly three years ago doesn't look like it will approach that value now.

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Forgive this experiment. I need to know how much the headline matters. If you've already read my Midori article from yesterday (July 30), don't bother to CLICK HERE.

If you haven't read it (and want to), please do CLICK HERE. Thanks.

I first heard about the Mojave Experiment indirectly through Daniweb, whilst reading a blog post about something different.

I also decided to check it out whilst reading through a thread on here. And I'm glad I did, if only so I could get to share my opinion on it.

After viewing about two-fifths of the videos on the Mojave website, I had seen enough to post something back on the thread that ignited it all.

And then I carried on watching videos, and I paused to put some more thoughts down. Those thoughts would have been reproduced word for word in this post, except that after I had gone...

The Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn battle had a lot of people worked up; related press releases and letters displayed some of the strongest language we’ve seen on-the-clock professionals use. So even though the main fight has been resolved, it should come as no surprise that a major investor may still be upset with the situation.

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