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AP sources give inside look at Microsoft s raised Yahoo bid: related news
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Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.?
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via Business Week @ 5:46 7th May
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psychosmyth writes "Microsoft's deal to Yahoo! is apparently back on the table. Yahoo execs met again with Microsoft early this past week to re-discuss the deal that fell through earlier. 'The gathering, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, gave Microsoft its first chance to sell Yahoo on the rationale for the proposed marriage since the software maker unveiled its plans six weeks ago. Since then, Yang has been exploring different ways to ward off Microsoft. The alternatives have included possible alliances with Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc., News Corp.'s MySpace.com and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL.' Microsoft is apparently still keeping all of its options open; a hostile take-over is not out of the question."
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via Slashdot @ 16:10 16th Mar
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mikkl666 writes "Even just since this morning, there's much to report in the ongoing fight between Microsoft and Yahoo!. After Yahoo! announced yesterday that they are testing Google AdSense, Microsoft reacted with a comment pointing out that 'any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands.' Ironically, they complain that 'this would make the market far less competitive.' Both companies try to team up with strong partners, as well. Yahoo! and AOL are now closing in on a deal to combine their Internet operations. And of course, this morning's news was that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is apparently in talks for a joint bid for Yahoo!"
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via Slashdot @ 20:02 10th Apr
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via News-Medical.Net @ 8:09 20th Apr
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger, undermining Microsoft's main reason for pursing the deal in the first place. "We find this to be a very advantageous situation for Google," Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown said Thursday. "The longer this gets dragged out, the better for Google." Yahoo signaled it is bracing for a protracted battle late Wednesday when an announcement and a media leak provided a glimpse at its labyrinthine search for alternatives to Microsoft's bid of more than $40 billion. The options include an experimental advertising alliance with Google that could lead to a broader partnership and, according to published reports, a combination with the online operations of Time Warner Inc.
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via Advanced Financial Network @ 22:31 10th Apr
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After Microsoft issued its ultimatum to Yahoo this weekend, giving them three more weeks before things get ugly, Yahoo's board of directors responded this morning, reminding Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that it already rejected Microsoft's offer, and Yahoo still thinks Microsoft's offer is too low.
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via Searchenginewatch @ 0:31 8th Apr
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Steve Ballmer is losing patience. On Saturday, the Microsoft CEO issued an ultimatum to Yahoo’s board of directors, writing a letter that said “now is the time” to negotiate on Microsoft’s bid to buy the company. Ballmer set a three-week deadline for Yahoo’s board to shake hands or else face a proxy fight in which Microsoft would try to oust Yahoo’s directors and nominate its own committee.
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via Fortune @ 22:32 5th Apr
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Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) executives met earlier this week but the talks ended in a standstill. Microsoft execs, who had earlier hinted that they would not raise their bid, refused to pay the $40 per share that Yahoo demanded, a source familiar with the matter told Fortune.
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via Fortune @ 1:05 5th Apr
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Here as a service to SYS-CON.com readers is the full text of the letter sent yesterday by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang.
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via SYS-CON Media @ 8:44 6th May
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Overshadowing Microsoft’s somewhat disappointing report on third-quarter results were questions about its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. The gist of Microsoft’s comments was pretty much the same: We’ve offered plenty, so it’s Yahoo’s move now.
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via Business Week @ 22:09 24th Apr
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With Microsoft's previously given deadline of 26th April drawing nearer, Yahoo has made some plans with Google with the two-week test in which Yahoo placed relevant ads from Google on its search results. Talks of antitrust issues are floating in the air if the two major search engines are looking at possible merge in lieu of Microsoft's undervalued offer as claimed by Yahoo, but the final straw hasn't been drawn till next week where we'll see if Yahoo accepts the Microsoft deal, or forces the Redmond company to act on its ultimatum and initiate a proxy fight for Yahoo's shares.
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via HardwareZone Singapore @ 1:09 19th Apr
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Yahoo! will begin a limited test of Google's AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!'s own search results. The test will apply only to traffic from yahoo.com in the US and will not include Yahoo!'s extended network of affiliate or premium publisher partners. The test is expected to last up to two weeks and will be limited to no more than 3 percent of Yahoo! search queries. The company noted that the testing does not necessarily mean that Yahoo! will join the AdSense for Search program or that any further commercial relationship with Google will result. The company further stated that it would not comment on the nature or timing of any potential relationship. Microsoft issued a statement in response to the news, saying a tie-up between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90 percent of the se
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via Telecom.paper @ 17:06 12th Apr
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KingAlanI writes "The New York Times website is reporting that Microsoft is trying another angle in its bid for Yahoo: joining up with another behemoth, Murdoch's News Corporation. This is still very much in the preliminary stage, if anything, but an important development to consider. The idea of Yahoo working with fellow Web giant Google, in a plan to counteract Microsoft's takeover plan, is also discussed."
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via Slashdot @ 13:09 10th Apr
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The Wall Street Journal thinks that Microsoft is about to break the break the deafening silence that has hung in the air since Yahoo! ignored Microsoft’s Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. The Journal thinks that Microsoft could nominate a proxy slate of directors to replace Yahoo!’s board but hold off on going directly to Yahoo!’s shareholders and say nothing about the price, a move that could let its shares recover from their 12% decline since Microsoft went public with its Yahoo! lust.
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via SYS-CON Media @ 2:11 1st May
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Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points out a new wrinkle to Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo. The most recent quarterly results, which saw Microsoft's earnings drop by 6% from the previous year (revenue from Windows alone was down 24%), have caused the stock to dip. This has reduced the value of the cash-and-stock offer from its original $44B to something nearer $40B. Yahoo, of course, has maintained all along that the original offer was lowball. A business professor is quoted: "Whatever leverage [Microsoft] built up in the last few days could be slipping away."
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via Slashdot @ 11:49 29th Apr
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft’s MSN and News Corporation’s MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.
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via New York Times @ 4:02 10th Apr
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would make the search advertising market "far less competitive" compared with its own proposal to acquire Yahoo. "Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google's hands," Microsoft said in a statement. Microsoft said it will assess closely all its options. Microsoft's statement was in response to an earlier announcement by Yahoo that it will begin a limited test of Google AdSense for Search service. End of Story
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via MarketWatch @ 20:51 9th Apr
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Over the weekend Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, brought out the big guns in his effort to strike Yahoo into oblivion ... er, that is, acquire the company as part of successful Internet venture. In a letter to Yahoo's board, Ballmer charged Yahoo with failing to take seriously Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $31 per share.
in Top Internet
via Salon @ 13:32 7th Apr
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SAN FRANCISCO After a meeting of senior Microsoft and Yahoo executives earlier this week that ended with no progress, Microsoft remains steadfast in its refusal to raise its bid for Yahoo, according to a person with direct knowledge of Microsoft’s thinking.
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via New York Times @ 22:05 4th Apr
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Possible deal between Yahoo and AOL is a bid to thwart a Microsoft takeover, but News Corp. reportedly is in talks with Microsoft to jointly bid for Yahoo
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via InfoWorld @ 12:23 10th Apr
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Sources say Microsoft was just using the possibility of an increased bid to entice Yahoo to meet to discuss the offer
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via InfoWorld @ 15:19 1st Apr
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Yahoo and Google are launching a small experiment in which ads selected and delivered by Google would appear on Yahoo searches. That would probably give Yahoo more cash, because Google generates more revenue per search query than Yahoo. The development is widely seen as an effort by Yahoo to avoid the buyout advances of Microsoft.
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via NPR @ 12:41 10th Apr
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which was waiting for the other shoe to drop, is still waiting, but it is moving ahead with its plans to deploy Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) search/text ads more widely across its network after a two week trial. The rollout could start within a week, reports WSJ, citing sources. Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT) hostile bid, or a raised bid offer, could come as soon as tomorrow morning (Friday AM two months ago was when it announced the original takeover offer), and Yahoo may still go ahead with the rollout irrespective.
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via PaidContent.org @ 11:13 2nd May
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Just how serious was Microsoft Corp. about raising its bid to $47.5 billion for slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc.?
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via Fortune @ 14:11 7th May
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo Inc. is turning over some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc. as part of a two-week test that could lead to a broader partnership. The experiment the companies announced Wednesday will allow Google to place ads alongside about 3 percent of the queries made in the United States through Yahoo's search engine -- the Internet's second largest after Google's. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo said it hasn't decided to join the thousands of other Web sites that rely on Google to handle most of the text-based advertising that is tied to search requests or other online content. Just the prospect of Yahoo working with the Internet's most profitable company throws a new dynamic into its effort to extract a higher takeover bid from its unsolicited suitor, Microsoft Corp.
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via Advanced Financial Network @ 20:51 9th Apr
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