Microsoft's patience pays off, after a year of waiting for Yahoo

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Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) finally agreed to become online search partners. Yahoo gets 10 years of revenue sharing with no upfront cash.

In waiting for more than a year for Yahoo to agree to a deal with Microsoft, the software giant got an impressive discount, compared with the $47.5 billion it offered in 2008 to buy Yahoo. Microsoft walks away with the larger share of the search universe, and parts with nothing.

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