Woah.
Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion (Update1)
By Phil Serafino Enlarge Image/Details
Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! Inc. for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share.
The offer is 62 percent more than Yahoo's closing stock price yesterday, according to a Microsoft statement distributed by PR Newswire. Yahoo shareholders can choose cash or stock, Microsoft said.
Microsoft and Yahoo explored ways to work together in late 2006 and early 2007, according to a letter Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer sent to the Yahoo board. Yahoo rejected the idea of being taken over by Microsoft a year ago, the letter said.
``While a commercial partnership may have made sense at one time, Microsoft believes that the only alternative now is the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! that we are proposing,'' the letter said. ``This proposal represents a compelling value realization event for your shareholders.''
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:21 (seventeen years ago)
I actually don't know anyone who uses Yahoo as a search engine these days and I can't believe MS is spending $44bn on Flickr and ads.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)
62% is a nice premium. or has yahoo lost a lot in the last few months?
― darraghmac, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)
The Yahoo share price is at its lowest since 2003.
― James Mitchell, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)
microsfot makes 44.6bn offer for yer hoos
― blueski, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:11 (seventeen years ago)
i offer 44.7bn for yahoo!
― jhøshea, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:25 (seventeen years ago)
$20 for jaxon
― ^@^, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:28 (seventeen years ago)
$21 for jaxon!
― jhøshea, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:31 (seventeen years ago)
$44.7bn for jaxon.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:41 (seventeen years ago)
i bid 10 g's
― blueski, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:43 (seventeen years ago)
this way they can pool their getting pwnd by google resources
― jhøshea, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
the email service when you sign up for BT broadband, as I did a couple of months ago, is provided by Yahoo. I suspect other similar services are too. So Yahoo usage by the general public is higher than you might think.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
I can't want to use their new genericcontent.yahoo.msn.com site!
― Hurting 2, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:51 (seventeen years ago)
uselesswebportal.aol.msn.yahoo.com/textdrenchedhomepage.htm
― Hurting 2, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:59 (seventeen years ago)
Yahoo usage by the general public is higher than you might think
Yeah, I'm always surprised by how many students who use yahoo for their email and for searching.
― Nicole, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:21 (seventeen years ago)
yah u guys yahoo is the most used website in the entire world duh
― jhøshea, Friday, 1 February 2008 14:24 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none
lol
― SeekAltRoute, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:49 (seventeen years ago)
the fuck? People still use orkut? where are they, thailand?
― kingfish, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:56 (seventeen years ago)
its popular in latin america
― jhøshea, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:57 (seventeen years ago)
and the subcontinent
― El Tomboto, Friday, 1 February 2008 23:59 (seventeen years ago)
Yeah, so it's a different guy, I don't care -- two headlines one above the other at the Washington Post, thread connection style:
# Gates Appeals for Increased NATO Support # Yahoo Rejects Microsoft's $44.6 Billion Offer
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 February 2008 14:06 (seventeen years ago)
http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Negotiate---Tips-for-Yahoo-5794173
an amusing video regarding the subject :)
― occamsrazor, Sunday, 10 February 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)
orkut never went public in the sense that it's always been invite only, right? dumb
― akm, Sunday, 10 February 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)
lol wut
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3944971674_fb4a960d90_o.jpg
the website for dudes who like to oil up and skate wearing only short shorts
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:52 (fifteen years ago)
or if you're the kind of douchetard who picks a hat to match your hipster threadless t-shirt
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3944971452_5bdcb7ca41_o.jpg
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:54 (fifteen years ago)
haha wtf
― sleep, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:14 (fifteen years ago)
Godspeed Y!ou Black Emperor
― Emmet Otter's Sug Ban Christmas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 07:23 (fifteen years ago)
looks more like a Target shirt
― mh, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 13:42 (fifteen years ago)
Hey guys, who wants to host a WINDOWS 7 LAUNCH PARTY!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago)
If you have enough friends who are particularly sarcastic and good at bullshitting this could actually be fun for like an hour.
― Fetchboy, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 20:32 (fifteen years ago)
windows 7 launch party ad is so next-level it makes it feel like the whole songsmith campaign was just to get you ready for the beast of aggravated postmodernism they were gonna unleash w/this shit
God almighty I'm just stunned
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago)
If you enjoyed that one, that are many more like it in the related videos.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago)
like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi_ioe64Z5k
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago)
God I love "The Room".
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 21:44 (fifteen years ago)
oh my God, they're full of stars
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 23 September 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago)