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Yahoo! rejects Microsoft again
Continuing the long, 5-month battle, Microsoft and Yahoo! still can’t agree on a deal. Announced today was another rejection from Yahoo! that was handed down to Microsoft. With the help of Carl Icahn, Microsoft is trying to acquire Yahoo’s search business. Yahoo! clearly doesn’t like the idea and is willing to open up talks again [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft, Yahoo! end talks without deal
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Wall Street Journal has reported that talks between Microsoft and Yahoo! have ended without a deal. Yahoo! has said that Microsoft was no longer interested in a take-over even at $33 a share. Yahoo! also decided that a search only deal with Microsoft is not the best way to go. Update: TechCrunch is reporting that [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft re-enters talks with Yahoo
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Contrary to what Microsoft has been saying about moving forward without Yahoo!, it seems that they may need Yahoo! after all. Announced today, Microsoft is willing to re-engage talks with Yahoo!, but this time not for a merger. To compete against the possibility of Yahoo! and Google on a search deal, Microsoft wants to work [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft walks away from Yahoo!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Three months after its initial offer, Microsoft has decided to walk away from the Yahoo! acquisition. After reports of a raised bid and talks between the two companies, Yahoo! continued to want more money asking for $37 per share or a total deal of $53 billion. Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer mentioned Yahoo! wouldn’t accept its newer [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft raises bid for Yahoo!
Friday, May 2, 2008
With all the threats to engage a proxy fight and even a possible walk away from the deal, Microsoft seems to have caved in to Yahoo’s demand for money. According to an unnamed source, Microsoft has raised its bid to acquire Yahoo! “by several dollars.” Both Microsoft and Yahoo! declined to comment as talks are [...]
Continue reading...News Corp and Microsoft in talks about Yahoo! bid
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
In another twist to this whole Microsoft, Yahoo! deal, the New York Times is reporting that News Corp and Microsoft are now in talks to bid together on Yahoo. If such a deal was to work out, it would create an even bigger challenge to Google with a combination of Microsoft’s services, Yahoo’s services, and [...]
Continue reading...Yahoo! sleeps with Google, Microsoft responds
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Earlier today, Yahoo! announced they’ll be handing over search advertising to Google for two weeks. Can you imagine Steve Ballmer’s reaction? We didn’t think so. However, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, did have something to say about the move: “Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in [...]
Continue reading...Yahoo! rejects Microsoft again
Monday, April 7, 2008
So two days ago, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer handed Yahoo! a threatening letter to accept their big ass offer, $44.6 Billion, or face a proxy fight. Well today Yahoo! once again decided the offer undervalues the company and rejected Microsoft’s offer of a buyout. In Yahoo’s own words: We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft gives Yahoo three weeks to accept offer
Saturday, April 5, 2008
If you’ve been keeping up with the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition, you know that it has been nothing but a stalemate. It started out with Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion and a few days later, Yahoo rejected the offer. Since then, the two companies have done nothing to speed up the process due to [...]
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
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