Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo Now?
Absolutely. Microsoft should yell "Yahoo!" one more time.
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11.10.2008 Microsoft to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
In its race to become the runner-up on the search engine and online advertising markets, Microsoft is about to give Google a little something to chew on.
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1.2.2008 Microsoft confirms Yahoo deal, Bing to power Yahoo! search
Yahoo! and Microsoft have both confirmed earlier reports of a deal over search.
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29.7.2009 Why Would Microsoft Buy Opera?
Reports are propagating that Microsoft has bought browser maker Opera Software. According to at least one publication, however, Opera representatives say the rumors are untrue, just as the rumors about Google buying Opera that supposedly circulated last week were also unfounded.
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25.12.2005 Microsoft To Buy Logitech?
There's loud whispers in the business community that Logitech, makers of (among other things) fine console and PC gaming peripherals, are about to be bought out by Microsoft.
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10.1.2008 Microsoft in talks to buy Softricity
Microsoft is in talks to buy application virtualisation software vendor Softricity of Boston, CRN has learned.
"It's coming down to the final stretches," said one source close to Microsoft who is familiar with the discussions. "It's not a done deal yet but it's just last minute haggling kind of stuff."
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19.5.2006 Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it announced Friday.
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19.5.2007 Microsoft in pole position to buy AOL
Search giant Yahoo's decision not to buy AOL has left Microsoft as the most likely candidate to buy the troubled outfit.
Vole wants AOL to sink Google and is widely seen as the main candidate to buy the outfit. Google wants AOL to give it a portal to increase its advertising potential. At the moment, it makes more than 10 per cent of its revenues out of AOL.
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Google 'looking to buy' Microsoft Office clone
Google is hoping to launch an office software suite that mimics Microsoft Office, according to the developer of the software.
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13.12.2006 Microsoft Boosts Speech/Voice Capabilities With Tellme Buy
Microsoft took another step toward rounding out its unified communications vision Wednesday with a deal to acquire voice/speech services player Tellme Networks.
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15.3.2007 Microsoft Wants Yahoo
Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
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5.5.2007 Microsoft Bidding on Yahoo?
It's just speculation at this point. But there were rumors this past weekend that Microsoft offered $80 billion for Yahoo. Yahoo was said to have rejected the bid as too low. On Tuesday, even though neither party would comment, talk of a potential Yahoo-Microsoft deal of some kind sent Yahoo shares up 4.4 percent. For the record, Microsoft has $40 billion in cash at hand.
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9.1.2006 Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microhoo?
One faction within Microsoft Corp. is promoting a bold strategy in the company's battle with Google Inc: Join forces with Yahoo Inc.
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3.5.2006 Why Microsoft should give up on Yahoo
Companies (at least publicly traded ones) are beholden to shareholders. But they also are beholden to their employees.
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28.4.2008 Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft offer
Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo?s search business and that discussions about Bill Gates? software group acquiring the company had not taken place.
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14.5.2006 Yahoo to Microsoft: Show us the money
The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation.
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7.4.2008 Microsoft-Yahoo deal: The time is now
The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo’s never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship–and the consensus is right.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft & Yahoo! Merger: Conflicting News
The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that talks between Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo Incorporated, regarding a merger or some sort of deal to fight Google in the online advertising market, are over.
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6.5.2007 Yahoo formally rejects Microsoft offer
Yahoo has formally rejected Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate.
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11.2.2008 Microsoft evaluating Yahoo bid: sources
Microsoft Corp is evaluating its bid for Yahoo Inc because the Internet company may have lost value since Microsoft made its offer, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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5.4.2008 Microsoft and Yahoo rumoured to be finalising deal
Several reports have surfaced today indicating that a Microsoft and Yahoo! deal is "imminent".
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17.7.2009 Microsoft and Yahoo met to discuss merger: sources
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Senior executives from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) and Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) met on Monday to discuss Microsoft's takeover bid for the company, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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14.3.2008 Microsoft CEO sets deadline for Yahoo deal
Yahoo Inc has three weeks to accept Microsoft Corp's $31-a-share cash-and-stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and take its offer to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday
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6.4.2008 Google, Yahoo, Microsoft adopt same Web index tool
Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for Web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the Web indexes, the companies are expected to announce Thursday.
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16.11.2006 Microsoft Takes a Swing at Google and Yahoo with Live Search 2.0
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are currently stuck in a three horse race over the dominant position on the search engine market.
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10.9.2007 Top Web parent companies in June 2006: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Time Warner
Nielsen//NetRatings published its findings on top Web parent companies in June 2006.
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14.8.2006 Google to buy Opera?
"Take that, IE 7"
Google may soon announce its acquisition of browser firm Opera, if rumour is to be believed.
Pierre Chappaz, founder of Kelkoo and ex-Yahoo! Europe president, has revealed in his personal blog, Kelblog, that a "usually well informed source" has told him the buy is on the cards.
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17.12.2005 If You Were Bill Gates, What Would You Buy Next?
If Microsoft chairman Bill Gates gave you a blank check and asked you to spend it in ways that would improve Microsoft's bottom line, what would you do with it? We're not talking planes, trains and automobiles here; we're talking tech investments. We know Microsoft technical evangelist
Robert Scoble would go Web 2.0-crazy with his mad money. But what about you?
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4.2.2006 Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 billion
Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation announced today they have entered into an agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun.
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20.4.2009 Want In on the Live Messenger Beta? Buy It On eBay
If you just can't wait for a private invite into the Windows Live Messenger beta, you now have another alternative:
Buy an invite on eBay. We, ourselves, have seen lots of folks offering all over the Web free invites for Microsoft's next-generation consumer instant-messaging client. Maybe we'll even get one in our Christmas stockings….
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22.12.2005Microsoft Not Bidding to Buy Yahoo: Ballmer
Microsoft Corp is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc but is in talks about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine, Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
"We are not bidding to buy Yahoo," Ballmer said at the launch of Microsoft's new research
and development centre in Israel.
"Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create value, but
not a whole acquisition of the company," he said without elaborating further.
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21.05.2008Yahoo chief says Microsoft should buy his firm
Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang said Wednesday that Microsoft should buy his pioneering Internet firm despite failed takeover talks between the
companies earlier this year.
"To this day, I would say the best thing for Microsoft is to buy Yahoo," Yang said during an
on-stage chat with journalist John Battelle at a Web 2.0 summit on Internet Age companies and their business strategies.
"Did we
want to do the deal? Yes."
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06.11.2008Analysis: Microsoft could, but shouldn't buy Yahoo
Anders Bylund: The Greek chorus calling for Microsoft to buy Yahoo is mumbling louder than ever. Journalists, analysts, and other assorted pundits are
saying that Mr. Softy needs to pull the trigger soon or lose a golden opportunity forever. Some of the singers are personal friends of mine, but I
still can't help but think that the speculation is dead wrong.
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14.01.2008Microsoft to Buy Yahoo Search and Then Facebook
Rumours from silicon valley this week point towards Microsoft purchasing Yahoo Search and then using $20 billion to get hold of Facebook.
Microsoft picking up the Yahoo search business. Word is that this deal will be done this week. While this is not surprising, it does bring to
question the motives and plans of Microsoft.
Techmeme is buzzing about the latest Microsoft Yahoo talks that has Microsoft buying the Yahoo
Search business only. Here is Microsoft’s and Yahoo official statements.
Why would such a complicated transaction (just Yahoo search
with all the headaches and all) be in the cards for Microsoft? After the failed bid for $40 plus billion for all of Yahoo, Microsoft’s
intentions are clear. Buy the search business from Yahoo and take that team and go spend at least 20 billion for Facebook. Integrating the search team
at Yahoo with Facebook puts a formidable army to take on Google.
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19.05.2008Yahoo: Buy us please Microsoft
Yahoo Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has suggested Microsoft buying Yahoo would be "the best thing".
At the
Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, California, Yang
said "To this day the best thing for Microsoft to do is buy
Yahoo....I don't think that is a bad idea at all, at the right price whatever that price is. We're willing to sell the company."
Yahoo declined a bid from Microsoft for $33 (£21) a share from Microsoft back in May. Since then Yahoo shares have plummeted and Microsoft
publicly stated
it no longer had any
interest in buying Yahoo.
Yang was questioned by one audience member regarding Yahoo's rejection of the Microsoft offer. "They
walked away from a public offering and we were ready to negotiate. We wanted to negotiate a deal. We felt we weren't that far apart.
"At the end of the day, they withdrew and they have since been clear about not wanting to buy the company," explained Mr Yang.
Microsoft has not commented on Yangs latest revelations. If Microsoft were to buy Yahoo now they would get a good bargain compared to back in May.
Since May the shares have dropped from $28.67 to $13.92 at the time of writing.
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06.11.2008Microsoft's New Threat to Yahoo: We'll Buy Someone Else
Microsoft made one thing clear on its conference call with investors this afternoon: We tech bloggers dont have to work this weekend.
Otherwise, it offered a cliffhanger. Next week Microsoft will announce whether it will take its bid for Yahoo to its shareholders or drop it
entirely.
The company had set a deadline of this Saturday for Yahoo to respond to its offer. So far, despite a few sessions of
small talk between executives of the two companies, Yahoo does not appear to be in any sort of mood to get more serious.
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25.04.2008Yahoo Joins Online Office Suite Race with Zimbra Buy
BREAKING NEWS - Sources indicate that Yahoo intends to announce this evening a $350 million cash acquisition of Zimbra, an online/offline open
source office applications suite. While exact details of the deal are not yet available, the buy will put Yahoo in direct competition with Google, who
has also begun to offer online office applications to both consumers and business...
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18.09.2007Microsoft says "no" to Yahoo buy-out, only wants search deal
Microsoft told Yahoo today that it is not interested in a takeover of the company, and only interested in making a search engine deal with the
company. The decision came from Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft. The announcement made Yahoo's stocks plummet to $9.14 a share, from
$11.57. Steve Ballmer told Yahoo that it was only interested in a search engine only deal, and would not be interested in a takeover of the
company. The original offering of $33 a share to purchase Yahoo was turned down by Jerry Yang, back in early May. The renegotiation's of
Microsoft to acquire Yahoo came about after the announcement that Jerry Yang, the former CEO of Yahoo stepped down.
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20.11.2008Microsoft Not Interested in Buying Yahoo
According to statements made today by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the software company is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo but is in talks
about other types of deals with the U.S. No. 2 search engine. " We are not bidding to buy Yahoo, " Ballmer said at the launch of
Microsoft's new research and development centre in Israel. " Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create
value, but not a whole acquisition of the company. "
Although Ballmer did not elaborate on his plans, a person familiar with the
discussions says that Microsoft has now made an alternative offer, proposing to buy Yahoo's search business and take a minority stake in the Web
firm. For its part, Yahoo has said it was considering a "number of value maximizing strategic alternatives" and would evaluate any proposal made by
Microsoft.
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21.05.2008Gates Never Wanted To Buy Yahoo; Deal This Weekend or Bust
Henry Blodget: As Kara Swisher drives herself to southern California for All Things D, she
solves some of the mystery about why Steve Ballmer suddenly walked from
the Yahoo negotiations a few weeks back (because his partner, Bill Gates, never liked the deal).
Kara also reports that Microsoft
really would prefer to buy Yahoo's search business and is not just faking interest so it can swallow the whole company. Kara says neither Yahoo nor
Icahn like the
a la carte deal and both are hoping to persuade Microsoft to buy the whole thing for $34-$35. Kara says if a deal doesn't
happen this weekend, Yahoo will do the search deal with Google (finally).
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24.05.2008Microsoft and Yahoo Bidding For eBay: Plausible
Scot Wingo at
eBay Strategies reports (via
Valleywag) that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (EBAY) are in a
bidding war for eBay and that Yahoo is expected to win with a $40-$41 bid.
Either combination makes sense strategically, although
a Microsoft takeover would be disastrous (see below). The trouble with a Yahoo "takeover," meanwhile--especially at a dilutive premium--is that eBay
shareholders would end up with most of the combined company, and it's not clear that Yahoo's depleted management team could do a better job of
running eBay than eBay's. As Valleywag's
Owen Thomas
suggests, Yahoo shareholders would be foolish to sign onto a highly dilutive deal unless they see absolutely no future for the stand-alone
company.
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11.01.2008Unhappy Yahoo shareholder reaches out to Microsoft
One of Yahoo Inc.'s disgruntled shareholders is urging Microsoft Corp. to make a more compelling case for its bid to buy the Internet pioneer's
search operations a proposal that was trumped by an advertising deal Yahoo reached with Google Inc.
Mithras Capital, which owns
1.7 million Yahoo shares, made the plea to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer in a letter sent Thursday.
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20.06.2008Analysts: Microsoft can buy Yahoo without raising bid
Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo will likely succeed, but it may not be the best use of the company's ample cash reserves, according to a poll of
analysts by Reuters.
The stand-off between Microsoft and Yahoo has stretched six weeks since the world's largest software maker
went public with its proposal. The Web pioneer subsequently rejected Microsoft's offer, which currently values Yahoo at $41.4 billion, saying the
takeover bid "substantially undervalued" the company.
The Reuters poll finds Wall Street brokers who follow either company
remain convinced that Microsoft will prevail in its takeover. Eight of eight Microsoft analysts surveyed and 14 of 15 Yahoo analysts believe Microsoft
will get the deal done.
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16.03.2008Microsoft Takeover Buzz Surrounds Yahoo Again as Cost Cutting Continues
A story in this morning's New
York Post - published
by the would-be owner of the
Wall Street Journal ,
which followed up on the story
- has speculators buzzing yet
again, stating #3 search
provider Microsoft may be
willing to pony up as much as
$50 billion to buy out #2
Yahoo...
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04.05.2007News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft
Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on
Wednesday. The two companies are in talks about a deal in which News Corp. would take a stake of as much as 20 percent in Yahoo. MySpace and other Web
properties of News Corp. would be combined with Yahoo, according to the report, which was attributed to "people familiar with the matter." The deal
would also involve a cash infusion by News Corp. and a private equity firm. Yahoo would remain independent.
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14.02.2008What is it about Microsoft that Yahoo most hates?
By the end of today if TechCrunch’s sources are right we may know
whether Yahoo is going to accept or fight
Microsoft’s bid to buy out Yahoo.
Whether or not the final word comes down today and launches the
antitrust-investigation phase of the proposed MicroHoo combination my question remains: Why are Yahoo management and many Yahoo employees so dead-set
against becoming part of Microsoft?
Sure, Yahoos may believe they (somehow?) can make more money, in the long run, as an
independent entity. But why has CEO Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board continually rebuffed not just Microsoft buyout offers, but seemingly even
partnership arrangements with which the Redmondians have approached Yahoo over the past year-plus?
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08.02.2008AOL a less challenging buy than Yahoo for Microsoft
While it still would present some integration challenges, AOL might be easier for Microsoft to absorb than Yahoo from a cultural and political
perspective now that Microsoft's battle for Yahoo has gotten so ugly.
Though Yahoo's search business is the crown jewel Microsoft
has been after, the quest to acquire it has degenerated into a string of taunts, threats, and mudslinging for which there seems little chance of an
amicable ending. This could pose some serious cultural and integration problems if the companies ever do merge, analysts said.
Purchasing
AOL -- a smaller business that would still give Microsoft a host of popular online properties to bolster its advertising business -- could save
Microsoft integration grief and the hassles of dragging out negotiations with Yahoo while Google continues to take market share from both companies.
It would also be less expensive and wouldn't preclude Microsoft from also buying Yahoo's search business at a later date, analysts said.
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18.07.2008Microsoft to Circle Back for Yahoo?
IDC analyst believes Microsoft will swoop back in after the annual shareholders meeting to buy Yahoo and appease ailing shareholders.
When Google and Yahoo struck their pact for search advertising last week, press and media opined on what that deal would do for the companies.
There is no mystery here; both sides will earn money as Yahoo runs select Google ads alongside its search results.
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19.06.2008Analyst: Microsoft bid is just a ploy to fend off Yahoo deal with Amazon
Believe it or not, Microsoft isn't really serious in its bid to buy Yahoo, according to one financial analyst, who says the proposal is really just a
ploy to fend off a potential deal between Yahoo and Amazon. Could he possibly be right? Probably not...
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09.02.2008Investor Carl Icahn moves to oust Yahoo directors
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is setting out to oust Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors for "irresponsible" and "unconscionable" actions that led
Microsoft Corp. to withdraw a $47.5 billion offer to buy the slumping Internet pioneer.
In a letter sent Thursday to Yahoo
Chairman Roy Bostock, Icahn wrote that outraged Yahoo shareholders had urged him to lead a campaign to replace Yahoo's 10 directors at the company's
July 3 annual meeting in hopes of bringing Microsoft back to the bargaining table.
"I believe that a combination between
Microsoft and Yahoo is by far the most sensible path for both companies," Icahn wrote.
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