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An investor with a minority stake in Yahoo on Thursday urged Microsoft to take its most recent proposal for a partial investment directly to Yahoo shareholders and prove its merits.
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Microsoft said its alternate deal was still open for discussion, though Yahoo maintains that selling its search business would be tantamount to giving up on future growth in the wider online advertising market.
"Microsoft claims that it has a clearly superior transaction," Nelson wrote in a letter that he said was e-mailed and faxed to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
"Now is the time, prior to the imminent proxy election, to substantiate that claim and take it directly to Yahoo shareholders," Nelson said.
Yahoo faces a proxy battle against billionaire investor Carl Icahn ahead of its annual shareholders meeting on Aug. 1.
Microsoft and Yahoo officials were not immediately available for comment.
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