Microsoft to Buy Web Ad Firm aQuantive for $6B

May 17, 2007

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Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would buy aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion, paying an 85% premium to snap up one of the last large independent companies in a consolidating Web advertising market.

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