Microsoft Wants To Buy Yahoo
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Ok if you have missed this then you must have been under a rock this morning. You can read the full story here but:
Technology giant Microsoft Corp said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock.
Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company's closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday.
If this goes thru I see this as a GIGANTIC move on Microsoft's part. This would be nice if they could get their shit together and start putting up more of a fight with Big Daddy in the Search Wars. I like advertising on MSN when my stuff is running but I also like Yahoo as well. Combining them I dont know what would happen but I do know that Yahoo turned down the last offer so I am not getting my hopes up just yet. BTW – Their stock is shooting up.
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- XRay said:
It’s gonna be too hard for Yahoo!’s board & stockholders to reject this offer. They’d be declared legally retarded if they did – the stock was at a 4 yr. low and MisterSoftee’s bid represents a 62% premium.
February 1st, 2008 at 5:50 pm - AndiC said:
Anti monopoly?
I wonder if the US government will step in to stop it or even the EU for parts of yahoo europe ?
AC
February 1st, 2008 at 6:08 pm - Ruck said:
Good points.
Interesting Andi as I was sitting here pondering how it’s all going to work out with the foreign parts of their situation.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pm - sparky said:
I’m not sure if this is good or bad, personally.
On one hand, it seems like less competition because instead of three companies, there’s two, and two is less than three.
On the other hand, it’s like two six year olds ganging up on an eighth grader; they’ll do better working together, 2 on 1 than 1 on 1 on 1.
Gonna have to agree with Xray; yahoo’s BOD will look like business school flunkouts if they reject the offer.
February 1st, 2008 at 6:22 pm - Derek--chillyd said:
So pissed about this one. I actually went to my brokers office to put in an options order yesterday. I had a feeling something was coming up. Needless to say my order didn’t get placed, because pre-market went crazy.
One day earlier would have netted me $60k.
Really annoying because I wanted to get over there on Monday.
February 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm - Chris said:
I dumped that stock at the end of December but I picked it up again last night. It would be a real earth-mover if this thing happens.
I wonder what they would call it. MSNyhoo?
February 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm - Abi said:
MSN has always wanted to eat up any competition that comes its way… i remember it took over some part of apple as well..
watever facts maybe, time for uncle bill let go of the big bros… ;)
February 1st, 2008 at 10:36 pm - Ruck said:
@ Chris – Ha good one how bout this one…MS…N…yhoo? lol
February 1st, 2008 at 11:39 pm - Gokarter said:
If this goes threw it prolly will make it a lot more efficient for us as marketers ,we’ll have one less place to go to set up campaigns and adds on .
Also if this was to happen i think it would give the big G-spot a run for there money.
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am - XRay said:
@ Andi – that’s a good, valid point. Even though Google is the ‘Cloverfield’ monster, I wonder if Microsoft’s past sins will come back to bite the deal in the backside.
One other thing. If your biz/stock have peformed poorly, you rejected my previous offer and conditions have gotten worse, why would they offer such a premium on the opening lob? I would think they would have gone with a low ball bid at first, then raise the bid in increments. Maybe they were looking to put the deal out of reach to any other potential suitors. What do you all think?
February 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 am - XRay said:
Yahoo! is rejecting Microsoft’s offer, but I doubt that it’s dead. Yahoo! is just trying to get a bigger premium before it says “OK” . That’s why I thought MSFT should’ve low-balled them on the 1st offer.
Here’s a link to a WSJ article about it:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120257515426256541.html?mod=hps_us_whats_newsFebruary 12th, 2008 at 12:59 am - Andrew said:
Yeah … Funny because Google were having talks with Yahoo. I can help but think Google had something to do with Yahoo’s decision.
AC
February 12th, 2008 at 5:55 pm - Linn said:
Not very happy with this as either google or micro$oft buy yahoo!
I am okay with merger, but not very keen to see monopoly on search engine world. CUIL didn’t make enough buzz after so much expectations and big 3 are the only main search engines for past decade.
I would not want to see search engine monopoly because I think either google or M$ will win this one once one of them bought Yahoo!.
would be very interesting to see.
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm - Stupid Funny Stuff said:
I remember when this was going on, it doesn’t seem like they’re attempting to buy Yahoo anymore. I personally would like to see them as separate companies too. Although $44.6 billion is a real lot, I’m surprised that yahoo didn’t take the offer.
April 1st, 2009 at 8:00 am
