Microsoft Adversary Rises Instinctively at Yahoo Bid
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Whatever the outcome of Microsoftâs bid for Yahoo, the move and Googleâs countermoves mark  an escalation in the confrontation between the two companies.
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Internet-centered programs that compete with the core products of Microsoft are a driver of its bid for Yahoo.
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After a resounding "no" on its unsolicited buyout offer for Yahoo, Redmond will either up the ante or ready a one-two punch.
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In an unusually aggressive effort to block Microsoftâs $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.
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Software giant goes public with $44.6 billion bid for the Net pioneer. Will Yahoo succumb to the advances or rebuff Microsoft as it has before?
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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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Yahoo's fiercest competitor, Google, has raised concerns about the possibility of Microsoft's takeover. Google's motives, of course, are hardly pure.
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Now that Yahoo is apparently in play, and talk among Wall Street Insiders touches on big names such as Google, Amazon, and AOL, Yahoo apparently feels all the talk has elevated its value high enough where it can afford to say no to Microsoft.
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News that Microsoft was making a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo was greeted with skepticism by many CNN.com users on Friday.
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Yahoo Inc  insiders are  mulling ties to rival Google Inc  as a possible defense  to rebuff Microsoft Corp's  takeover bid, a person  familiar with Yahoo management's thinking said on Sunday.
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Google Inc. faces an uphill battle in its effort to stir competition concerns over Microsoft Corp.'s $42 billion bid for Yahoo Inc., analysts said Monday.
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Yahoo remained coy on Monday as Microsoft publicly touted the virtues of its 44.6-billion-dollar bid to take over the Internet firm and Google maneuvered behind the scenes to thwart it.
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Skeptical investors are trading  Yahoo Inc  shares at a 6.5 percent discount to  Microsoft Corp's  unofficial offer price, but some Wall  Streeters expect the software giant to raise its bid.
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Googleâs management team has an obsession with Microsoft, and that oversensitivity may well cloud their reaction to the prospect of Microsoft buying Yahoo.
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Microsoft is turning to debt to finance its Yahoo! deal.  The stakes must be very, very high.
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Microsoft Friday unveiled a bid of 44.6 billion dollars for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.
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Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader's queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.