Confirmed: Yahoo expanding to Microsoft’s backyard from SeattlePi has confirmed reports that Yahoo has signed a lease on Bellevue’s One Twelfth @ Twelfth complex for 115,000 square feet. The new office can potentially fit between 500 to 600 employees.

It appears Yahoo is hiring software engineers for the Bellevue location.

This is Yahoo’s first large presence in Seattle. Google has their Kirkland office and we all know Microsoft’s headquarters is in Seattle.

More coverage can be found at Techmeme.

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