Yahoo turned down the latest offer from Microsoft this week, it walked away from $9 billion (4.6 billion pounds) in cash and $1 billion a year in additional operating profit, Microsoft said on Friday. In an e-mail to employees, Microsoft platforms and services division president Kevin Johnson said it had offered $8 billion for a 16 percent stake in Yahoo and $1 billion to buy Yahoo's search business and assume its operations.
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