Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
The news is everywhere this morning about Microsoft's $44.6B offer to buy Yahoo. The offer represents $31 a share, a 62% premium over Thursday's closing price; and Yahoo's stock price has been rising in after-hours trading. Microsoft has been making overtures to Yahoo since 2006, according to the CNet article, including a buyout offer last February that was rebuffed. Mediapost.com has some perspective on the deal from the point of view of ads and eyeballs. Such an acquisition, which would be Microsoft's largest by far — it bought Aquantive last year for $6 billion — would need approval by US and EU authorities. A European Commission spokesman declined to comment.
Yahoo confirmed that it has received an unsolicited offer and said that its board would evaluate the proposal, "carefully and promptly in the context of Yahoo's strategic plans and pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders."
Judging by this blurb, I think the answer is going to be a big, fat yes.
SEO Copywriter. Just Say ON
Now MS should bid for Pirate Bay aswell!
Now I'll be able to get my Britney Spears fix from one source instead of two.
Just in case you just now got out of the DeLorean, Yahoo bought Zimbra back in September.
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
Actually, I'd bet that the only reason that MS is buying Yahoo is to finally get Rasmus Lerdorf working for them. You know, since they can't exactly get Linus or RMS very easily.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Hey, Ballmer: I can help with your goal of making "a more efficient" company. Instead of using buzzwords like "this proposal represents a compelling value realization event for your shareholders", you could say something like "this is a good deal for your shareholders."
:P
Eliminating unnecessary, extraneous keystrokes on a corporate scale represents a compelling efficiency realization event for your shareholders.
So there.
A good portion of the value of Yahoo! to Microsoft is in their customers. I am pretty sure that they will make all efforts to keep the customers. Throwing away Yahoo! customer's data sounds like the last thing they have in mind. They might be greedy but they're not stupid.
I for one... welcome our new yodeling software overlords.
[signature]
In this story:
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/299523
Ballmer makes this comment:
" Signalling Microsoft doesn't intend to take no for an answer, Ballmer wrote that the company "reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo's shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.""
My question is how many chairs does that involve?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
You left out the post-it note on the letter - "Jeffry, Roy - We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Remember - I know where you all live."
Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
Of cros they do! Evey night heavn with the ladeis you can have too if you purchaise soft Cililiaolois!!! Only 49c a pill!
which is totally what she said
Are you kidding? A Silverlight-only, ActiveX-only-upload Flickr would absolutely *rock*! I can't think of a better way to gain marketshare.
Moderation Total: -1 Troll, +3 Goat
When you scramble up the letters in Microsoft and Yahoo it spells Hot Roomy Fiasco. That can't be good.
Wait, it can also spell Ciao, Frosty Homo. That's not so good either.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
M$ fails in the add market
You've used Excel too?
Moderation Total: -1 Troll, +3 Goat
Slashdot has detected an incoming news submission.
If you started this action, continue.
[Continue] [Cancel]
User Account Control helps stop unauthorized changes to your news stories.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.
As of a half hour ago, there were multiple anti-Microsoft threads in the help forum and elsewhere. Now they're nowhere to be found...
Are you kidding? A Silverlight-only, ActiveX-only-upload Flickr would absolutely *rock*! I can't think of a better way to gain marketshare.
The real key would be to make it IE 7 only. That way people would only experience Flickr with a top notch browser, thus enhancing the Flickr brand!
Could you please explain where search isn't good enough? Google works well enough for me (and just about everyone I know). I've never really sat back and thought, "Damn, I wish there was some better search engine out there."
This is when I will be impressed...
http://pics.nerdnirvana.org/d/1406-1/myhouse_google_com.jpg
Hello.
I work at Microsoft. I am interested in your business ideas. Your ideas clearly demonstrate an in-depth understanding of our marketing and branding focus.
Please swing by Microsoft HQ anytime next week and we will chat.
When you're talking about the Microsft's evil twin from the mirror universe... See, an $ is just a S with a goatee.
;-)
The only problem is that M$ actually makes money on OpenSource software and services, and it's founder is a bald and well shaved Robert Stalman, AKA M$ Bob.
---- You know how some doctors have the Messiah complex - they need to save the world? You've got the "Rubik's" complex
Microsoft is smart. They did not get where they are by being idiots.
Yes, and the same can be accurately said for Dick Cheney.
There has to be a corollary to Godwin's Law here...
"The Sony rootkit debacle began in October 2005. The PS3 was released in November 2006. How, exactly, did these two events coincide?"
On a scale spanning all of time, 13 months is but a whisper.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
...or you can call them Micro Soft as they used to call themselves. ...or you can use the Chinese symbols for tiny and flaccid as they used to use in China.
Just don't call them an innovator.
This seems to be a feature of Excel 2007.
I'm required to introduce someone who is going to present a miniworkshop on using Office-07 (pronounced "Oh fuss ought seven") at our staff meeting later this month. So I thought I'd check on whether the 65535 bug had been fixed yet, using one of the Vista workstations with Office-07 on it.
The answer is: paying out 850 monthly stipends of $77.10 each will cost us, not $65,535.00 like it would have with Excel 2003, and not $100,000.00 like it used to with Excel 2007 a few short weeks ago, but now the incredibly low cost of $0.00. In fact, payouts between $77.00 and $77.90 would all cost us exactly nothing.
And the above zero-sum game is stable for perhaps 15 minutes before all those answers change to something else.
We will be recommending to all our staff that they continue to use Excel 2003 until we tell them that Excel 2007 is working correctly.