Tensions escalating in battle for Yahoo's board

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In this May 4 2007 file photo a Times Square news ticker flashes a headline about Microsoft above a billboard for Yahoo in New York. Yahoo Inc. late Saturday rejected Microsofts latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a take or leave it ...
In this May 4, 2007 file photo, a Times Square news ticker flashes a headline about Microsoft above a billboard for Yahoo in New York. Yahoo Inc. late Saturday rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.


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