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Yahoo has been very good at working the display advertising business, and although weakness in the automotive and financial markets depressed that business, Microsoft's deal could strengthen it again.
The newest piece of CEO Jerry Yang to Yahoo communications dropped into the SEC's 8-K filings, with an admonition to staffers to stay focused.
Google's not one of those corporations in which every person in a given room is likely to be the vice president of something or other. So since the company is hiring a handful of execs in African offices, this appears to be a sign of an impending expansion throughout the continent.
In all of the Microsoft-Yahoo talk so far, no official deadlines have been given. There may be an implicit hurry-up factor, however, as it seems that Microsoft's sinking stock price could force it to adjust the deal.
If Microsoft can pull off its Yahoo proposal and manage to get ad systems integrated across properties for both sites, they could be a desirable part of search marketing campaigns that begin and end with Google these days.
