New documents illuminate Yahoo-Microsoft saga

June 3rd, 2008 in Technology / Internet

(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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