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Under an available information, today on February 11th the company Yahoo plans to reject officially the offer on the purchase acted about ten days ago from corporation Microsoft.

Microsoft we shall remind has offered for each stock of Yahoo 31 dollar. Thus total cost of the transaction can make almost 45 billion dollars that approximately on 60 % above a total cost of stocks Yahoo. Against the potential transaction many experts and the companies act. In Google in particular believe that merge of two giants will worsen a situation with a competition in the Network and will damage to basic principles of the Internet – opennesses and to innovations.

As now informs Wall Street Journal referring to the sources close to Yahoo the board of directors of this company has made a decision to refuse merge with Microsoft. In Yahoo consider that the sum of 44,6 billion dollars is insufficient, and the company is not measured to consider any other offers on purchase below 40 dollars for the stock. Differently in Yahoo believe that sale of the company will be possible only provided that for it the sum of the order of 57-60 billion dollars will be offered.

Meanwhile some analysts believe that Microsoft can raise the sum of the potential transaction. And shareholders Yahoo can try to achieve merge with Microsoft. The matter is that business at Yahoo recently go not too well and the quarter profit of the company for a year was reduced practically to a quarter. With the purpose of improvement of financial position Yahoo plans to reduce about 1000 employees that makes approximately 7 % from an aggregate number of staff of the company.

Yahoo has finished to test the authentification system OpenID. Henceforth owing to OpenID more than 248 million registered users Yahoo can apply the same sheaf of a login and the password to access to various a web-services. Now report OpenID support the order of 10 thousand web-sites.

On the sites supporting platform OpenID visitors do not need to be registered and remember the personal data. Instead of it preliminary enough to be registered on a site of “provider” OpenID then it is possible to work with all the web-services compatible to the given report.

Company Yahoo just also will act in a role of “provider” of identification: was registered on site Yahoo users can cooperate with other services with support of report OpenID 2.0. In turn a web-sites, applying OpenID, can add on the pages of authorization the button регистрирации by means of identifier Yahoo for a fast input. Thus, at users will disappear necessity to create numerous accounts and to remember passwords of access to various services in the Network.