NEW YORK - MAY 04: A news ticker reports potential buyouts for Yahoo! After reports earlier this week that Ruport Murchoch's News Corp. had made a bid for Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, reports surfaced today that Microsoft Corp. is looking into buying Internet search engine provider Yahoo and that Reuters had been approached about a possible takeover by an unnamed suitor, but widely reported to be Canadian publisher Thomson. Getty Images logo Getty Images 58 months ago

NEW YORK - MAY 04: A news ticker reports potential buyouts for Yahoo! After reports earlier this week that Ruport Murchoch's News Corp. had made a bid for Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, reports surfaced today that Microsoft Corp. is looking into buying Internet search engine provider Yahoo and that Reuters had been approached about a possible takeover by an unnamed suitor, but widely reported to be Canadian publisher Thomson.

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