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"Microsoft and Yahoo! have been notified that Australian and Canadian authorities have separately concluded their reviews and have no objections to our proposed search agreement," the two companies said in a joint statement. "We continue to believe that this deal will create a true, competitive alternative in the marketplace that will benefit consumers, advertisers and publishers. We remain hopeful that the agreement will close in early 2010."

Read more: Microsoft-Yahoo search/ad deal approved in Australia, Canada | In this article: Microsoft, Australia, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Google, US Justice Department, Canada, and Ninemsn

"We're going through this development process," Dana Lengkeek told the paper, "and we can't really say at this point we're going to do X,Y or Z because that might impact the approval process." The Many Faces of Yahoo Through the Years The draft report says a key purpose of the project is to "consolidate Yahoo's existing leased office/R&D space and provide a campus in the City of Santa Clara, to meet future growth needs," according to the paper.

Read more: Is Yahoo Leaving Sunnyvale? | In this article: Mercury News, Google, and Microsoft

"It's enough to make you yell, Yahoo!" said Santa Clara Vice Mayor Jamie Matthews. "To have such a massive future expansion in your city's future is a tremendous gift to all of Silicon Valley."

Read more: Yahoo Santa Clara campus could house 12,000 workers | In this article: Silicon Valley Power, Google, Microsoft, and Revenue

"We're trying to be sensitive to that issue," said Matthews, the Santa Clara vice mayor. "Yahoo has been a valued resident of our community, said John Pilger, a spokesman for Sunnyvale. "We certainly think it's important for them to be here, and we hope they would stay."

Read more: Yahoo Santa Clara campus could house 12,000 workers | In this article: Silicon Valley Power, Google, Microsoft, and Revenue

"Yahoo has been a valued resident of our community, said John Pilger, a spokesman for Sunnyvale. "We certainly think it's important for them to be here, and we hope they would stay." Yahoo's development plans, he added, don't "necessarily mean a headquarters is going to move. Moving a headquarters is a major undertaking; it's not just a matter of moving desks over there."

Read more: Yahoo Santa Clara campus could house 12,000 workers | In this article: Silicon Valley Power, Google, Microsoft, and Revenue

"Microsoft and Yahoo! have been notified that Australian and Canadian authorities have separately concluded their reviews and have no objections to our proposed search agreement," the two companies said Tuesday in a joint statement.

Read more: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Cleared in Australia and Canada [Digital Daily] | In this article: Microsoft, Canada, Australia, San Jose Mercury News, Tokyo Bay, and Silicon Valley

"The proposed agreement did not appear to decrease innovation incentives for either of Microsoft, Yahoo or Google," the regulator added.

Read more: Microsoft, Yahoo pact cleared in Canada, Australia | In this article: Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp., Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Google, Canada, Australia, Bing, Revenue, Yahoo search, and MarketWatch

"T" for targeting or an eyeball. "We don't have the drafting pen up on the Hill, so instead of wringing our hands on what they may or may not write, we are just trying to build the most credible self-regulatory program possible," says Mike Zaneis, vice president of public policy at the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group representing 375 media and technology companies, including AOL, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Read more: Keeping Web Tracking On Track | In this article: Interactive Advertising Bureau, AOL, Yahoo., Google, AT&T, and Microsoft

"GeoCities was the largest self-created folk-art collection in the history of the world," says Jason Scott, 39, leader of ArchiveTeam, one of a handful of parallel groups that worked to download as many of the GeoCities home pages as they could in the weeks before Yahoo! pulled the plug.

Read more: Yahoo! Pulls Plug on GeoCities, Erases Internet History | In this article: GeoCities, Taliban, Alexa, Buddhas of Bamyan, Hollywood, and Netherlands

"That was huge for me, because that got me on the Yahoo home page and the chance to be used in their advertising this year," Allen, 17, said of winning the contest earlier this week.

Read more: Tucson teen is among 3 Yahoo yodeling champs | In this article: Tucson, Catalina Foothills High School, YouTube, United Kingdom, India, and United States