Facebook and Yahoo! forming strategic alliance

The Sunday Telegraph has said that Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandburg may be forming an alliance between their companies – Yahoo! and Facebook.

Mayer, CEO of Yahoo! and Sanberg, the COO of Facebook are in discussion on how they can work together to conquer the Internet. Unnamed sources said that “board members expect the talks to lead to much more substantial collaboration based around web-search.”

Facebook will be able to use Yahoo! to improve their search features which could help boost the advertising platform. In exchange Facebook have a 1 billion user count on their platform which could give Yahoo! the power to challenge rival Google. Rumors suggest that the partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft could end.

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