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Microsoft Looks To Refuel Talks With Yahoo

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the if-you-can't-beat-em-buy-em dept.

froggero1 writes "The New York Post is reporting that Microsoft wants to rekindle the takeover talks with Yahoo. According to the article, Yahoo! has repeatability turned away their offers, but Microsoft hopes that a lucrative 50 billion dollar offer will bring them back to the table. This move would increase Microsoft's web search market share to roughly 38%."

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  1. Not just grammar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Facts are also in question. Where does it say MS is offering $50 billion?

    From the FA:

    The new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo! a few months ago, sources said. But Yahoo! spurned the advances of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.

  2. Re:If Yahoo! is 38% of the market by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · · Score: 4, Informative

    if 38% = $50B

    This is an incorrect assumption in several ways. First Yahoo has 28% of Web searching, not 38%. The 38% number was for Yahoo and MS's combined share. The other way it is incorrect is the assumption that all Yahoo or Google or MS does is search, which is of course not true. The value of $50B was for the company, not for their Web search service.

  3. Re:holy crap by mknewman · · Score: 3, Informative

    Market cap for YHOO is 44.99 billion, so $50b is in line, 10% or so premium.

  4. Re:holy crap by cyclopropene · · Score: 4, Informative

    Market cap for YHOO is 44.99 billion, so $50b is in line, 10% or so premium. That's the market cap after news of the potential takeover made it out and the share price rose ~18%. The market cap yesterday was ~38 billion.
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