The top executives at Microsoft and Yahoo haven't held any recent discussions to break an impasse over Microsoft's 3-month-old takeover bid, Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said.

Yahoo! says it's going to try offloading some ad placement to Google, experimenting with using Google's AdSense for Search service to deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo's search results. Yahoo made the announcement after the stock market closed. It didn't take long for Microsoft's chief counsel Brad Smith to lob antitrust claims at the unholy alliance.

Yahoo! says it's going to try offloading some ad placement to Google, experimenting with using Google's AdSense for Search service to deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo's search results. Yahoo made the announcement after the stock market closed. It didn't take long for Microsoft's chief counsel Brad Smith to lob antitrust claims at the unholy alliance.