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Report: Microsoft, Yahoo enter tentative discussions

Microsoft and Yahoo execs met for the first time this week to discuss Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid


Microsoft and Yahoo executives met for the first time on Monday to discuss Microsoft's initial $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The meeting is the first since Microsoft made the unsolicited offer on Jan. 31, and gave Microsoft a chance to pitch its vision of the future of the two companies. Yahoo rejected the initial offer last month, saying it was too low.

[See InfoWorld's special report detailing all the latest manoeuvres in Microsoft's takeover bid for Yahoo. ]

The meeting included several executives from both companies but was not a negotiation and no investment bankers attended, the report said. No further talks have been scheduled.

The report said it wasn't immediately clear if the CEOs of either company attended the meeting.


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