SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo's (YHOO.O) annual investor meeting on Friday will be a magnet for discontent over the company's failure to reach a merger deal with Microsoft (MSFT.O) and complaints about the company's past performance.

The latest variation on the Microsoft-Yahoo theme comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which is reporting that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is looking for lab partners in some kind of Yahoo dissection. Microsoft has talked to News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) about possible partnerships, says WSJ; no one seems to actually expect those chats to pan out. Then again, Yahoo is ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor with a minority stake in Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Thursday urged Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to take its most recent offer for a partial investment directly to Yahoo shareholders and prove its merits.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor with a minority stake in Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Thursday urged Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to take its most recent offer for a partial investment directly to Yahoo shareholders and prove its merits.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An investor with a minority stake in Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Thursday urged Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to take its most recent offer for a partial investment directly to Yahoo shareholders and prove its merits.

Microsoft's (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) search to challenge Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) for a bigger share of the multibillion dollar online ad market may be limited to an alliance with Yahoo (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News).

Microsoft's (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) search to challenge Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) for a bigger share of the multibillion dollar online ad market may be limited to an alliance with Yahoo (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News).

Shares of Yahoo took a beating Monday after Microsoft (MSFT) withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover bid, but the punishment wasn't as severe as many analysts anticipated because investors suspect the rivals eventually will renew their mating dance.