Submission + - Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion (yahoo.com)
prz writes: "Reuters is carrying a story about this. From the article: "Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Friday it has offered to buy Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), the popular Web portal, for $44.6 billion in cash and stock, seeking to join forces against Google Inc (GOOG.O) in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/bs_nm/microsoft_dc_5"