Microsoft sets deadline for Yahoo response to buyout offer
Monday, April 7, 2008
SEATTLE — Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer's board Saturday, warning that if a deal wasn't reached by April 26, the software maker would launch a hostile takeover at a less attractive price.
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