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Microsoft-Yahoo! Proxy Fight - No Way! |
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| Apr 10, 2008 03:17 PM UTC |
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4/8 - "Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has issued an ultimatum to Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)'s board of directors and senior management that they have until April 26 to approve Microsoft's $41+ billion price tag or Microsoft will take it to the shareholders directly. This would amount to an unmitigated disaster. Tell me the last time a nasty takeover went well in the technology world. You can't because these things don't happen or work." "The technology world fosters an environment of independence and delicate egos abound. Key personnel from Yahoo! are not going to sit idly by while Microsoft tenders directly to the shareholders in an aggressive fashion. These key people will have retained recruiters, if they haven't already, and will be on to the next opportunities. By the way, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is hiring!" 
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Bill Miller Takes on Microhoo
4/9 - "Legg Mason (NYSE: LM) rock star Bill Miller has taken on some losing battles lately. After beating the market for 15 consecutive years, the fund manager has underperformed for two years and is off to a rough start this year. Now he's out to make a case that Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) should walk if Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) lowers its buyout offer later this month."
"If Microsoft hasn't rai...
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Will Time Warner Beat Out Microsoft for Yahoo?
4/7 - "According to the Wall Street Journal, talks between the two companies have "heated up recently."... I still give Microsoft the edge in this contest. The software maker wants Yahoo in the worst way, offering $44.6 billion, or $31 per share, for the beleaguered Internet portal. Time Warner also is under pressure from shareholders to turn around AOL. But unlike Microsoft, it doesn't feel th...
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Piper Jaffray: Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal at $31 Now "Inevitable"
4/8 - "Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster thinks so. In a research note yesterday, he wrote that it now appears “inevitable” that the company will sell to Microsoft (MSFT) at the current $31 a share bid price...Munster says he talked to 20 YHOO institutional investors, and that the majority prefer the current deal to no deal. “We believe that Yahoo does not have alternative options to satisfy investo...
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Yahoo!'s Google Move: Dumb, But Entertaining
4/10 - "Yahoo! (YHOO) got kicked by Google (GOOG) by initially powering its search engine by Google.
Now, it’s about to let Google serve some of its ads. This is a dumb move strategically and tactically...by opening up its search inventory to Google - even if it’s only 3% of its inventory - does in fact reduce YHOO’s relative value to Google for a buyer such as MSFT.
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