Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said that Microsoft was "not interested" in making a new offer for internet company Yahoo, despite Yahoo's share price currently sitting at less than half what Microsoft initially offered.
Yahoo announced on Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
The joint venture between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd today launched a search service for local businesses called MyLocal and completed the acquisition of mobile content syndication firm HWW.
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