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Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 02, 2008 06:53
...at least that' s their plan. Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo' s board, is 62% above Yahoo' s closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company. It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft. In a conference call, Microsoft' s Kevin Johnson said that the combination of the two companies would create an entity that could better compete with Google. It is a shotgun marriage, but the person holding the shotgun is Google Tim Weber, business editor, BBC News website " Today the market [for online search and advertising] is increasingly dominated by one player," he said. 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." If Yahoo accepted the offer, competition authorities both in the US and the European Union would be likely to investigate the tie-up. Yahoo chief executive, Jerry Yang, announced on Tuesday that he intended to lay off 1,000 staff as part of a restructuring plan. Terry Semel, who stepped down as chief executive last June, also quit as non-executive chairman on Thursday. Microsoft said that Yahoo shareholders could choose to receive either cash or shares. YAHOO' S FALLING PROFITS Oct to Dec 2007 down 23% July to Sept 2007 down 5% April to June 2007 down 2% Jan to March 2007 down 11% Yahoo share price Microsoft share price Google share price Yahoo shares have fallen 46% since reaching a year-high of $34.08 in October. On Friday they closed almost 48% higher. Microsoft closed 6.6% lower while Google shares fell 8.6%. " Ultimately this corporate marriage was forced by the rise of Google, which has grown into a serious competitor for both Microsoft as a software company and Yahoo as an internet portal," said Tim Weber, business editor of the BBC News website. " It is a shotgun marriage, but the person holding the shotgun is Google." ' Exorbitant premium' According to its letter to Yahoo, Microsoft attempted to enter talks about a deal a year ago, but was rebuffed because Yahoo was confident about the " potential upside" presented by the reorganisation and operational activities that were being put in place at the time. " A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved," Microsoft' s letter said. But there has been some concern about the price that Microsoft is offering. This smacks of desperation from Microsoft who have consistently failed to achieve a meaningful online presence " To me, the premium seems exorbitant, for what is a dwindling business," said Tim Smalls from the brokerage firm Execution LLC. " I personally don' t see how the synergies of Microsoft-Yahoo is going to take on Google." Other analysts were more enthusiastic about the offer. " It is a fantastic offer. It is game on," said Colin Gillis from Canaccord Adams. " This consolidates the marketplace down to Google versus Microsoft. These two companies will be going head to head."
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locopuyo
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 02, 2008 09:22
So much money
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 02, 2008 12:27
Microsoft has been in war with Google for a while now. This is a direct jab at them. 45 Billion dollar sucker punch. I wonder how much of this has to do with male posturing.
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Eddie_the_Hated
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 02, 2008 23:59
44.5bn seemed to me at least, to be a ridiculous amount of money to pay for Yahoo of all companies, the underdog for quite some time, and their stock isn' t anywhere amazing either. I don' t bet on this having any effect whatsoever on Google' s success with Google.com, or Microsoft' s failure with the relatively poor Windows Live Search.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 10, 2008 05:24
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locopuyo
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 10, 2008 09:44
Well, I think Yahoo has the most web mail users. I use it, and personally think that their web mail is by far the best. Also, I' m not completely sure on this, but even though google gets more searches, yahoo actually has more visitors than google does. Also Yahoo has a lot of things that are way better than googles. Yahoo Maps for example, blows google maps out of the water. I use google web, image, and video search, but I use Yahoo for everything else. I don' t get why the liberals aren' t crying out about google' s " monopoly" on the web search. They seem to like google. Google is a very aggressive company, just as aggressive as MS. They bought youtube and are trying take control of the whole internet. They' re an evil corporation.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 10, 2008 11:11
ORIGINAL: locopuyo Well, I think Yahoo has the most web mail users. I use it, and personally think that their web mail is by far the best. Also, I' m not completely sure on this, but even though google gets more searches, yahoo actually has more visitors than google does. Also Yahoo has a lot of things that are way better than googles. Yahoo Maps for example, blows google maps out of the water. I use google web, image, and video search, but I use Yahoo for everything else. I don' t get why the liberals aren' t crying out about google' s " monopoly" on the web search. They seem to like google. Google is a very aggressive company, just as aggressive as MS. They bought youtube and are trying take control of the whole internet. They' re an evil corporation. Exactly what i have been saying all along . Google is as aggressive as MS . They know if MS buys Yahoo they will have some serious competition but nobody will point at google because any company competing with MS are considered as fighting monopoly . Google is trying to monopolise the internet as loco said . They have launched their own version of wikipedia .Now they are trying to come off as saviors of yahoo . Its going to be pretty fucked up if google buys (atleast a stake) in yahoo to fend off MS .
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 10, 2008 15:48
They' re an evil corporation. I agree but It' s better to have two evil corporation fighting against eachother as opposed to one evil corporation fucking the consumer full time.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 10, 2008 17:41
I like ' em both! They' re my HEROES! But seriously... What Google is doing isn' t monopolizing. They are merely trying to get a hand in everything. Now Microsoft... yeah, they wanted to simply lock out the competition.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 11, 2008 04:00
You' re a fool for thinking google doesn' t want to take over the internet.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 11, 2008 10:36
I' ll link it later, but Yahoo' s declined Microsoft' s advances.
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 11, 2008 14:26
ORIGINAL: Eddie_the_Hated I' ll link it later, but Yahoo' s declined Microsoft' s advances. ?? I thought I did that already.
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Eddie_the_Hated
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RE: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6bn
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Feb 12, 2008 00:21
Whoops! I figured I' d already read most of the posts, as I didn' t think it was that hot of a topic. I totally missed yours, so I posted the news. Cred to Nekkid for the info then.
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