YAHOO QUESTIONED AGAIN

Yahoo shielded its intended advertising transaction with Google at a U.S. Senate hearing on Tuesday, while Microsoft assaulted it as anticompetitive and perhaps even "unlawful." The inquiry before an antitrust section repeated quarrels that the 3 companies have made earlier: Microsoft is demanding to hoist antitrust protestations as a way to disrupt the deal and the dual Silicon Valley firms articulates it's entirely fine and a boon to antagonism. One cause why Microsoft is so irked is that the advertisement deal amounts to a poison pill that would elevate the price of buying Yahoo to the extent that of $250 million. That's the so-called butchery fee that Yahoo would be obligated Google if an acquirement ended the advertisement relationship, though it can be cut down by 50 percent of the proceeds Google earned.