Microsoft - Yahoo saga seems to be over!

Published in May 4th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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Well, after 3 months of negotiations, speculations and rumors the saga between Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be over, for now. Microsoft has formally withdrawn their offer to buy Yahoo while the second publicly declared a victory for the Web at all. While there are clearly no winners in this virtual war here is what […]

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Despite rumors Microsoft is highly unlikely to increase its bid for Yahoo

Published in April 3rd, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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When last week we wrote about Yahoo’s shares going up on rumors that Microsoft is going to increase their bid for the Internet giant it seems those rumors were not very accurate. This week Microsoft gave Yahoo a very strong signal it won’t happen.
Sources “close to the company” tell the Wall Street Journal that Microsoft […]

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Yahoo shares up 4.4% on rumors Microsoft will increase the bid to $34

Published in March 26th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Investments, Media, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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To make a long story short a Citigroup Investment Research analyst believes that rather than let the deal fall apart, Microsoft will increase its buyout offer for Yahoo. Citigroup has raised its Yahoo price target to $34 per share based on their belief that Microsoft will revise its takeover offer. The guy is named Mark […]

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AOL is offered up for sale

Published in March 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Media, Money, Public Companies, Technology, Yahoo
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Today is a sad day for AOL, which somehow contrasts to the big day the company had in 2000 when they merged with Time Warner in what was then the biggest deal for the dot com era. All indicates that AOL is offered up for sale.
AOL, which is a symbolic company for the Internet the […]

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Microsoft’s stock has fallen 13% since its offer for Yahoo

Published in February 19th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Companies, Internet, Investments, Microsoft, Money, Public, Search Engines, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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We have read tons of stories and points of views about the potential deal between Microsoft and Yahoo over the past weeks. We guess all people did. Everything seems already being said about the deal. Yet, something interesting popped up in the news today. It turns out that Microsoft is the big loser from the […]

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Yahoo makes an acquisition of its own – the online video platform Maven Networks

Published in February 13th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Accel Partners, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Entertainment, Internet, Media, Microsoft, Money, Multimedia, News Corp, Public Companies, Software, TV, Technology, Venture Capital, Yahoo, video
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Undeterred by the threat of a hostile takeover Microsoft imposed over them a couple of weeks ago Yahoo seems to have completed an acquisition of its own Tuesday by buying online video service Maven Networks Inc. for $160 million.
The deal marks Yahoo’s latest attempt to expand its online advertising network and more concrete its online […]

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And here is what Microsoft has to tell Yahoo!

Published in February 12th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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The saga continues. Following the firm “NO” of Yahoo as of yesterday, Microsoft has put up today an official press release responding to the Yahoo!’s NO with “Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination”
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 11 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! […]

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Yahoo’s official response to Microsoft’s offer: NO!

Published in February 11th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in AOL, Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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After we reported the strong NO of Yahoo! to Microsoft over the weekend (Saturday) here is the official response of the Yahoo!’s board of directors.
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft’s Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has […]

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End of speculations: Yahoo rejected Microsoft’s offer

Published in February 9th, 2008
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Internet giant Yahoo’s board has decided to reject Microsoft’s takeover bid, saying its 44.6 billion dollar offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier today.
Yahoo’s board also believes the Microsoft offer, at 31 dollars per share, does not account for risks facing Yahoo if it pursues a deal that might be ultimately blocked […]

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One after another the potential competitive bidders for Yahoo drop off; is Yahoo going to surrender to Microsoft?

Published in February 8th, 2008
Posted by Web 2.0 Innovations in Acquisitions, Advertising, Business, Google, Internet, Microsoft, Money, Public Companies, Search Engines, Society, Software, Technology, Yahoo
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A few days ago we were trying to analyze who is going to eventually make a counter offer to match or outbid the Microsoft’s $46B offer for Yahoo!.
By that time multiple sources were reporting counter offers are in preparation by competitive bidders trying to snatch Yahoo! before Microsoft does it. We then exclude Google from […]

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