Microsoft-Yahoo Deal: What About Developers?
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Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie sees Yahoo acquisition as a way to grow Microsoft's developer community.
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SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - Microsoft Corp   made a bid to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion, seeking  to join forces against Google Inc  in what would be the  biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner- AOL merger.
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School kids arenât the only ones returning from vacation. Dog-eared speculation about a potential deal between Yahoo and Microsoft is back as well. Rumors flew about a possible transaction between the two companies in May, after various reports suggested that Microsoft was considering a joint venture with Yahoo, an acquisition of Yahooâs search business or an [...].
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Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is adding more fuel to the merger craze fire. But such mega-mergers often have less than stellar results, as four examples show.
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Microsoft Corp  on Friday said  it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc  in a proposed cash  and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.
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While observers believe that Microsoft is willing to pay Yahoo $44 billion primarily for its users and advertising base, Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, wants to grow its developer community as well.
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The Yahoo bid is a dramatic statement from Microsoft, a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long.
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What are the open-source implications, if the software giant is successful in acquiring Yahoo? Matt Asay offers his opinion.
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Fingers in both pies !!!!! Some of Yahoo!'s institutional investors are keen for the proposed Microsoft takeover to go ahead, not because they're pleased with the offer price but because they own shares in both Microsoft and Yahoo!.â¦
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Microsoft said Friday it had offered to buy struggling Internet firm Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars (30.0 billion euros) in a bid to take on Google in the crucial battle for online revenues.
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Microsoft&#39;s $44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo&#160;is a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft may end up having to raise the amount it is willing to pay for Yahoo if the software company's stock continues to drop while Yahoo's continues to rise.
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Microsoft's proposal to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion raises many questions. Will Yahoo accept the offer? Can Microsoft win the approval of antitrust authorities in the United States and the European Union? Can the company digest an acquisition this large without suffering an AOL-Time Warner-like...
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One's head spins thinking about Microsoft's unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion for Yahoo. Yahoo has been a major figure in the open source world for a long time. It sponsors events, participates in countless development projects, and encourages its own engineers to do open source work. And, of course, it uses countless open source code bases as well. read more
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In a letter to Yahoo&#39;s board, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer&#160;offered to acquire the company&#160;for a per-share price of $31 in cash or 0.9509 of a share of Microsoft common stock -- a 62 percent premium above the Jan. 31, closing price of Yahoo -- and cited the broad range of ways in which the companies might work together to create a more effective competitor in the online marketplace. Below is the text of the letter that Microsoft sent to Yahoo&#39;s Board of Directors:
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Keeps financial terms under wraps Microsoft says it is to acquire software developer DesktopStandard for an undisclosed sum.â¦
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'We've been engaged for months' !!!!! Steve Ballmer all but confirmed that Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo! for scale, branding and audience rather than any technology or products the web media co owns.â¦