Tuesday, February 12th 2008
Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement
Microsoft has officially responded to Yahoo!'s rejection of its proposed $44.6 billion takeover bid with the following statement:
Source:
Microsoft
It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both companies, we are confident that moving forward promptly to consummate a transaction is in the best interests of all parties.
We are offering shareholders superior value and the opportunity to participate in the upside of the combined company. The combination also offers an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.
A Microsoft-Yahoo! combination will create a more effective company that would provide greater value and service to our customers. Furthermore, the combination will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising.
The Yahoo! response does not change our belief in the strategic and financial merits of our proposal. As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!'s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.
13 Comments on Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement
That says it all!
Cram it up your ass -- you and everyone else knows you'll get what you want in the end. Stop acting like you're being Mr. Nice Guy and that Yahoo is acting crazy.
And by the way -- there's already a "compelling number two competitor" for internet searching -- it just isn't you. So, you're trying to do what you do best -- buy your way into competition. Stop trying to sugar-coat it, and you might get a little respect.
Sincerely,
The Internet
erm, thats just fancy speak for 'we know that your shareholders were more then happy to sell you out to us'
this whole takeover is just an attempt to compete with the likes of google, and to make all the little shittier search engines (ie; lycos, altavista.. bet u heavent heard of these guys for ages) go under.
imho, good on you yahoo, its suck big time if you sold out to em neway. can you imaging installing the next flavor of windows just to find it riddled with some stupid hybrid search, on ur desktop in your stock browser. yahoo live... oh god. no
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"We'll drive investors/share-holders of Yahoo! to disinvest in the company if they don't sell themselves to us." The best way a consumer can stop this is simply boycotting all Yahoo! services if there's a takeover. Use every Google alternative there is.:laugh: