Unfortune » 60285 http://unfortune.com Poor celebs...when will they learn? Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:30:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. http://unfortune.com/2008/06/microsoft-to-buy-powerset-not-just-yet/ http://unfortune.com/2008/06/microsoft-to-buy-powerset-not-just-yet/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:52:39 +0000 http://www.unfortune.com/2008/06/26/microsoft-to-buy-powerset-not-just-yet/ VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.

VentureBeat says this is a done deal. Our sources say it’s highly likely, but hasn’t actually been signed yet and could still be disrupted by the ongoing Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations.

Powerset debuted at TechCrunch40 last fall and opened a showcase of its technology to the public just last month.

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