Little Room for Yahoo to Maneuver
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Many Yahoo shareholders are waiting for a higher bid than that offered by Microsoft, but analysts say it is increasingly unlikely.
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Internet-centered programs that compete with Microsoftâs core products are an overlooked driver of its bid for Yahoo.
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Some new features may give Yahoo! shareholders reason to shout.
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Investors in Yahoo Inc.   abandoned on Tuesday their initial excitement over a management  switch at the Internet media company, sending its shares lower  on expectations that little real change was in the works.
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Yahoo has not reached a decision about&#160;Microsoft&#39;s acquisition offer&#160;and is considering &quot;a wide range of potential strategic alternatives,&quot; Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said in an e-mail to employees on Wednesday.In the e-mail, which was addressed to &quot;yahoos&quot; and filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Yang said the Yahoo board is still reviewing the deal and will &quot;take the time it needs to do it right.&quot;&quot;Our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and evolving landscape,&quot; he wrote in the e-mail, typed in all lowercase letters.Microsoft made its unsolicited bid for Yahoo last Friday, offering to pay $44.6 billion for the company, or 62 percent over Yahoo&#39;s closing share price Thursday. The deal would greatly expand Microsoft&#39;s search and advertising business and could help it to compete better with Google online.Yahoo is understood to be lukewarm on the offer. The company hopes a rival suitor will emerge with a counteroffer or that it can forge a deal with Google that will allow it to remain independent, according to Wednesday&#39;s Wall Street Journal newspaper, which cited unnamed sources.However, analysts have said it is unlikely another company could match Microsoft&#39;s sizeable offer, and a business deal between Yahoo and Google could raise antitrust concerns because of Google&#39;s already dominant market position.In the e-mail, Yang thanked the Yahoo staff for staying focused on their work amid the turmoil. The company has hired &quot;top advisors&quot; to assist it through the process and is focused on maximizing value for its shareholders, he said.
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Yahoo (Quote, Chart) isn&#39;t ready to concede the e-mail search market to Google (Quote, Chart). In a deal that signals aggressive response to the growing popularity of Google&#39;s (Quote, Chart) Gmail service, Yahoo
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Charles Arthur: Why Google might benefit from Microsoft's attempt to shoehorn Yahoo into itself
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Most of the talk about Microsoft's hostile offer for Yahoo has focused on whether the deal could tip the scales in the battle for Internet dominance. Today, I'd like to steer the conversation to something a little more basic that almost everyone has overlooked: the numbers.
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Everyone is ga-ga over Google. Time to get excited about Yahoo?
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Yahoo! must consider the Microsoft deal on the table.
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Yahoo! has reorganized its structure and management to align its operations with its key customer segments; audiences, advertisers and publishers, which the company believes will &#8220;effectively leverage Yahoo!&#8217;s significant strengths to capture future opportunities for growth&#8221;. &#8220;We&#8217;re moving aggressively to deliver the most possible value to our key customers &#8212; audiences, advertisers and publishers &#8212; and [...]
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Microsoftâs proposed mega-bid for Yahoo is based on its own particular corporate needs and may not be a harbinger of rampant deal-making in Silicon Valley.
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Time Warner seems ready to sell its underperforming AOL unit -- but with the possibility of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger, the list of potential acquirers has grown much shorter.
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Yahoo!'s board weighs its options for responding to Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer.
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Many travelers by now are accustomed to getting maps and driving directions on the Internet. A new offering from Yahoo Inc. will now provide real-time traffic conditions as well.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo&#160;is seeking to reassure carriers that it isn&#39;t trying to cut them out of the loop with its mobile content services, even as it rolls out&#160;new mobile services&#160;for customers.
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Yahoo! has more questions than exclamation marks.