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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!
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.
I for one... welcome our new yodeling software overlords.
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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."
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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.
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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?
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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
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.
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