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Microsoft Acquiring Semantic Searcher Powerset For $100 Million: Report

Jun 26, 2008 5:04 PM

Well if it can’t get Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) search business… Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) will acquire semantic search engine Powerset for more than $100 million, according to Matt Marshall at VentureBeat. His exact language is that the company “has agreed to acquire” the company and that it will be announced next…

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Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Search, Technologies / Formats, Companies, Microsoft, powerset

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