Microsoft makes unsolicited bid for Yahoo

Software giant offers $44.6 billion in effort to challenge Google

MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 11:11 a.m. PT, Fri., Feb. 1, 2008

REDMOND, Wash. – Microsoft has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since [...]