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When Mike Arrington posted a story on Techcrunch today, saying that he has heard from multiple sources that Microsoft and Yahoo! are back in talks about a full acquisition, Yahoo!’s shareprice jumped. According to Techcrunch, Microsoft is planning to offer something lower than than previous best offer of $33 per share.
What will that new offer [...]
A few days ago, I wrote about it seeming likely that Microsoft would offer a maximum of $33 per share for Yahoo!, but that there were rumours that Yahoo! wanted $37 per share. I said:
If Yahoo!’s shareholders are really holding out for an offer of $37+ per share, as some are suggesting, I suspect they’re [...]
Microsoft has, though a leak to the Wall Street Journal (see Silicon Alley Insider), indicated that it would be prepared to up its current offer for Yahoo! to $32-$33 per share (the original offer was $31 per share). It’s surprising to me that Yahoo!’s shareholders haven’t already bitten of Microsoft’s hand to take the original [...]
Seems that Yahoo! is trying to put together a deal to acquire AOL in a bid to prevent being acquired by Microsoft. What will shareholders think of that? I’d be surprised if they’ll be particularly impressed. I suspect they’ll think this is simply about turkeys not voting for Christmas.
With various options on the table, shareholders [...]
The Times newspaper reports that Yahoo! and News Corp. are in discussions for Yahoo! to give up 25% of its equity, worth $9B at today’s prices, in return for MySpace. Well, they should know - after all, News Corp. owns The Times.
What’s amazing about this is that the paper appears to suggest that [...]
With the departure of Yahoo! CEO, Terry Semel yesterday, there has been lots of speculation about the type of person Yahoo! should hire as a new permanent CEO (people have assumed the co-founder Jerry Yang is an interim chief). An advertising executive? A media guru? I think the answer [...]
So… you’ve probably seen that Yahoo! and Google uber-bloggers Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts have got caught up in a “who copied who” war of words, when talking about the design download pages for the companies’s respective IE7 browser toolbars, bundled with the IE7 browser. See Jeremy’s original post, and Matt’s follow-up.
I think all [...]