DALLAS: Microsoft Corp’s decision to drop its pursuit of Yahoo! Inc increases the pressure on chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed against Google Inc.
Ballmer’s bid for Yahoo, the most-visited website, signalled that Microsoft was making little progress against Google in Internet search advertising, said Charles Di Bona, a Sanford C. Bernstein analyst.
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