A Yahoo worker walks into Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Microsoft Corp. has pounced on the slumping Internet icon with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets.

First published in the February 01, 2008, 6:55 p.m. edition

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