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** FILE ** A Times Square news ticker flashes a headline about Microsoft above a billboard for Yahoo! in New York in this Friday, May 4, 2007. Microsoft Corp. announced a bid on icon Yahoo Inc. on Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the online search and advertising markets. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)