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Oct 24 2008 6:08pm EDT

Trouble in Oslo

Microsoft's latest M&A fiasco isn't with Yahoo. Norway-based Fast Search & Transfer, which Microsoft acquired in January for $6 billion, has hit more speed bumps as the company tumbles further into hot water with officials there over accounting problems.
You can't blame this one on Microsoft -- except for that niggling due-diligence part.
Read the story here: Fast Times at Microsoft. □

Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.

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