Jerry Yang – “I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo”
Well, this was an interesting story for me! With recent developments regarding the breakdown of talks between Google and Yahoo, Yahoo! just released this article at 9AM EST this morning. Now that quasi-white knight Google is out of the picture, Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has some advice for Microsoft: “To this day, I [...]
Microsoft Decides To Forget About Purchasing Yahoo!
Yep. It has been announced that Microsoft isn’t going to bend over backwards for Yahoo anymore. Yahoo! didn’t think their offer from $31.00 to $33.00 was enough! “Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded [...]
Microsoft About To Launch Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta Browser
Microsoft says that it’s going to be releasing the beta of Internet Explorer 8, also known as IE8. Internet Explorer 7 was finalized in Octoberish of 2006, but still hasn’t gained converts from Internet Explorer 6. Hopefully there will be better promotion of Internet Explorer 8, IE8, so people can upgrade and keep those security [...]
Yahoo Too Good For Microsoft? $44.6 Billion Not Enough.
Yahoo! rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer. Yahoo’s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid with a letter Monday saying the offer undervalues Yahoo, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. Yahoo says that the $44.6 billion offer “undervalues” the company. They don’t want to sell for under $40/share. Mmmok Yahoo…! [...]
Microsoft And Yahoo News Buzzing In The Blog World – $44.6 Billion
The news of the recent announcement that Microsoft wants to–and “won’t take no for an answer (Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer)”–purchase Yahoo has quickly (wild fire quickly) made it to almost every blog this morning. For those of you who don’t know yet (I’m sure a majority of the human race already know), Microsoft sent [...]
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