New documents illuminate Yahoo-Microsoft saga

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft Corp. to engineer a takeover even after an outside consultant questioned the plan's generous benefits, according to previously sealed documents in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news131693293.html">New documents illuminate Yahoo-Microsoft saga</a></p> <p>(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft Corp. to engineer a takeover even after an outside consultant questioned the plan's generous benefits, according to previously sealed documents in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo.</p>