News Corp in deal talk with Yahoo: reports
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  is  in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with  Yahoo Inc  to fend off Microsoft Corp's  $42.1  billion bid, according to several reports.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend offÂ Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in  serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo  for an amount  that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal  reported on Thursday.
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AOL has held talks with Yahoo about a possible deal to fend off an approach from Microsoft, a report says.
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co.  said on Thursday that it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to discuss his $5 billion bid to buy the company, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Yahoo&#39;s board of directors plans to reject&#160;Microsoft&#39;s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid,&#160;The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing as its source &quot;a person familiar with the situation.&quot;According to the report, the source said the Yahoo board has determined that the $31-per-share offer &quot;massively&#160;undervalues&quot; the online services company. In addition, Microsoft&#39;s buyout bid doesn&#39;t take into consideration the business risks that Yahoo would be taking if it entered into an agreement that in the end might not be approved by government regulators, the source told the Journal.According to the Journal, Yahoo&#39;s board intends to send Microsoft a letter on Monday, detailing its position.A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment on the report today. &quot;We are not providing details on the board&#39;s review process,&quot; she wrote. &quot;Yahoo&#39;s board is carefully and thoroughly evaluating the Microsoft proposal in the context of all of the company&#39;s strategic alternatives, and will pursue the best course of action to maximize long-term value for shareholders.&quot;Microsoft, which announced its offer for Yahoo on Feb. 1, couldn&#39;t be reached for comment today. The offer is a combined cash-and-stock deal; in announcing the bid, Microsoft said Yahoo shareholders could choose to receive either cash or Microsoft stock, although it added that the total consideration would be equally split between the two forms of payment.Yesterday, published reports said that Yahoo&#39;s board was meeting to discuss the offer.Yahoo is still evaluating other options,&#160;including a search advertising partnership with Google, according to today&#39;s report by the Journal. It also may still be open to a longer negotiation with Microsoft: The Journal said it was told by the source that Yahoo would be unlikely to consider any offers below $40 per share.If so, that would require Microsoft to raise its original offer by at least 29 percent, or about $13 billion. In other words, the cost for Microsoft to become a more credible rival to Google in the search and online advertising markets could start at about $57.6 billion.Google has been doing what it can to scuttle the Microsoft takeover bid, including playing the antitrust card by asking, in a blog post by one of its executives last Monday, whether Microsoft might &quot;attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?&quot;Microsoft quickly shot back, issuing a statement saying that a combination of it and Yahoo merger would &quot;create a more competitive marketplace.&quot;(Eric Lai contributed to this story.)Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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The family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc.  said on Thursday it plans to meet with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.  to discuss News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones.
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News Corp. recently discussed swapping its MySpace social-networking site in exchange for a large stake in Yahoo, according to published reports.
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News Corp Ltd executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has offered a compromise to concerned institutional investors on future control issues and the possibility of the media empire delisting from the Australian Stock Exchange, it was reported.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWSa.N) is  in talks to combine MySpace and other Internet properties with  Yahoo Inc  to fend off Microsoft Corp's  $42.1  billion bid, according to several reports.
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Yahoo Inc is in talks on  a possible deal with News Corp, but analysts said an  alternative was unlikely to emerge to rival Microsoft Corp's  bid for Yahoo, now valued at $42.1 billion.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is negotiating to rescue the embattled internet company Yahoo
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Yahoo Inc.  and a loose  consortium of newspaper publishers are considering a  partnership that would include Web classifieds, local news, and  content packages based on general themes like travel,  BusinessWeek magazine reported on Thursday.
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Social-networking site Facebook is in   serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo YHOO.O for an amount   that could approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal   reported on Thursday.
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Technology giant Microsoft Corp   said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet  media company Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion in cash and  stock.
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Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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News Corp. may be ready to sell off MySpace in an effort to gain a stake in search engine company Yahoo, British daily The Times reported Wednesday.