Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

spearman914 · May 5, 2008

lemonadesoda said:
This is a VERY LONG letter by Ballmer. Too long. It is either:

1./ Fake, or

2./ Spelling out issues of market collution with the dominant player, together with "poison pill", ready to take the issue to the MM commission, or pursue legal action againt said director. How? Becuase Ballmer is spelling out how, through "spite of hostile bid", the management team of Yahoo would take actions to destroy value for their shareholders. They would be legally liable to the shareholders for such action and could not only force their resignation, but pursue them for damages, or

3./ Its a trojan horse. MS will not take Yahoo in ONE hostile bid, but will work with an invement bank / private equity firm to acquire stock through a third party until such point that together they have sufficient voting rights to appoint their own board members. Its not a hostile take over. But an accumulating stakeholder in Yahoo until such point that MS has controlling influence.

All in all, odd.

Yahoo should remain alert.

LOL Long is fake??? Then okay letter "a" is one letter so consider I never typed that and it is fake?

Ravenas · May 5, 2008

Dangle said:
I don't consider failing to mean withdrawing a ridiculously bloated bid for a shitty company.

It is a failure. MS wanted to push big innovations through a popular and well considered html such as Yahoo. Yahoo had the strength to push MS's innovations in search engine technology and virtually everything else they were planning web wise. By not being able to push new things through such a big community as Yahoo, MS has failed a pushing new products and new innovations.

It's really too bad in some ways, but also good in some ways. Guess they'll have to go else where.

Triprift · May 5, 2008

And they will in truth i thought that was a reasonable offer from ms but if Yahoo can get better than good luck to em.

Atnevon · May 5, 2008

If it is real, the dead horse got up and kicked Microsoft in the face.

HP_dudeman · May 5, 2008

that sucks... i would of rather had microsoft acquire yahoo.

Haytch · May 7, 2008

Ok, so where's Yahoo now ?

Triprift · May 7, 2008

That leaves em two options id say

Either renegociate with Ms or go with Google either way one empire is gonna get bigger.

Google would be the safe bet as i dont think Ms will accept the $37 a share demand from Yahoo.

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