Yahoo extended the deadline for nominating candidates to its board fearing that Microsoft would nominate its own member to the board in an attempt to push the deal through. Yahoo had given itself more time to search for a white knight to help it fight off an unwanted takeover bid from Microsoft. There are current talks with AOL but as seen in 2005 those attempts have failed once before due to issues related to Time Warner’s continued ownership in AOL

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