Potential suitors throw Yahoo! to the wolf
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Forrester eats its research Yahoo! can marry Microsoft or remain an old maid with a less than rosy financial outlook. Those are the options. And we're being kind including one of them.â¦
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Yahoo!'s board weighs its options for responding to Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer.
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If you search for Yahoo Microsoft, this page is the second hit. I like that of course. It's generating a fair amount of flow, since the combination of Yahoo and Microsoft is a pretty hot topic. Keeping the topic going, I think it's pretty amazing that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, but then again, which of all their web efforts has captured our imagination? At least Yahoo has Flickr, and when they try something new, we all try it with them (often with not the greatest results). The rambling continues... If Yahoo is into poison pills, try this one out.  Reserve 5 percent of Yahoo's common stock for blogger options. Put us to work to find new businesses for Yahoo, ones that are relevant to our world. When we find them, reward the bloggers with a significant upside stake in Yahoo's future, not the airy-fairy kind, but real stock that we can trade. Handled properly, it could raise shareholder value by much more than 5 percent. Just the kind of deal they pay you to do, oh Yahoo gods and board members.  Of course it'll never happen. It's an idea like the one I keep proposing for newspapers -- that they hire their public editors from the public, independent bloggers with no journalism experience, with no undue reverence for the institutions so revered by journos. They're going away, just like Yahoo is (sad but true). Now what will rise in their place? Imho, something that's home grown, with the integrity of the people, in our interest. The more they invite the public in, the more clued in they will be when we figure out where we want to go with news on the web. It's why I'm excited about the Obama campaign and why I keep giving to it (I'm up to $400 now). I'm excited because so many other people are excited.  I like his idea about tuition for public service for college students. It's so simple. People want to be involved, they want to use their energy and creativity to solve problems. In the 20th century we were couch potatoes. In the 21st we do it for ourselves.  The first tech company that fully embraces this, not just in the form of User Generated Content (what an insult) but by giving us power (that comes from stock) will rule the world. If Y! had the guts, it won't be long before they're making tender offers to buy out Ballmer.  BTW, I think I understand why Ballmer wants Yahoo! When Yahoo engineers wake up they program stuff like Yahoo Live, which is pretty cool and runs on the web, and while it steals ideas from smaller companies, it adds some pretty cool stuff of its own. When Microsoft engineers wake up they program stuff like Vista, a multi-year, multi-billion dollar waste of money, time and customer goodwill. They can't do another Vista without wrecking the franchise. Now the question is -- where do they go for growth? That's what Yahoo is for.
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This social networking disease is catching Yahoo! is in talks to buy Facebook, the social networking site for college- and schoolkids, the WSJ reports today.â¦
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You ain't digging into my space, Monkeyboy !!!!! Rupert Murdoch is in talks with Yahoo! aimed at fending off the hostile takeover by Microsoft.â¦
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Yahoo Inc  employees fretted on Friday that their  fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a  cowboy yodel, could get quashed by the comparatively stodgy  software behemoth that wants to gobble it up.
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Microsoft bid may be catalyst for needed change at Yahoo, but Yang and company are expected to fight it, insiders say.
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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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Here's Microsoft's formal offer letter sent to Yahoo's board of directors on Thursday.
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Are Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's days numbered? Almost certainly. Is it too soon to start picking a successor? Not at all -- and you can help, by nominating and voting for contenders.
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Rasmus Lerdorf himself has posted some info about a little assistance he's offering to help developers get their foot in the door at Yahoo!.   Want to work on some of the busiest and coolest web apps in the world? Do you like Flickr, and want to work downtown San Francisco? Or perhaps you are into music, movies or TV and want to work out of Santa Monica? Jumpcut? Or have you seen answers.yahoo. com? Address Book, Personals, Search, Premium Services, Hot Jobs? Want to do interesting things combining PHP and Flash?   All you need to do is send a resume his way and what kind of job interests you have (check out their career site for options) and he'll get you in touch with the right people.
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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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Yahoo Inc  is  reportedly in talks with News Corp (NWSa.N) to combine their  Web properties, but Wall Street analysts rained scorn on the  likelihood of a deal that can fend off Microsoft Corp's   $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo.
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F*ck! me! Microsoft has made a $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo!.â¦
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Yahoo&#39;s rejection of Microsoft&#39;s acquisition bid&#160;is likely a negotiating strategy to elicit a higher offer and shouldn&#39;t be seen as an attempt to resist a deal at all costs, according to analysts.Neither Microsoft nor Yahoo has many options to improve their position in online services and advertising, and combining forces is their best bet against common rival Google, analysts said.&quot;It&#39;s part of a larger negotiation that&#39;s occurring. Clearly, Yahoo should be and is seeking a higher bid, and this is part of that process,&quot; said Clayton Moran, a financial analyst with Stanford Group.Yahoo is unlikely to find a company willing to bid as much as Microsoft for it, while Microsoft will not be able to attain its Internet goals by acquiring a company other than Yahoo. &quot;While they need to negotiate and go through the process, at the end of the day this deal will happen,&quot; Moran said.On Monday, Yahoo rejected Microsoft&#39;s bid, saying it undervalues the company. Microsoft offered to pay $31 for half of Yahoo&#39;s outstanding shares and 0.9509 of a Microsoft share for the other half. At the time of the offer, Microsoft&#39;s stock stood at $32.60 and the bid was valued at $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over Yahoo&#39;s stock price at the time. However, the bid&#39;s value has dropped with Microsoft&#39;s sliding stock price, which at press time was $28.10. At the same time, Yahoo&#39;s stock price has risen from a close of $19.18 on the day before the bid to $29.75 at press time.Moran predicted that Microsoft will adjust its offer so that it ends up at $35 per share, probably increasing the fixed cash portion and reducing the variable stock portion so that value is less vulnerable to Microsoft stock fluctuations. A $35-per-share offer would be a midpoint between the original bid and the $40 per share Yahoo is reportedly seeking.&quot;We continue to view a Yahoo sale to Microsoft as the most likely outcome,&quot; Citigroup financial analysts wrote in a note published Sunday after press reports over the weekend that Yahoo would reject the Microsoft bid. The rejection isn&#39;t surprising but rather is consistent with Yahoo&#39;s board job to &quot;extract maximum value&quot; for shareholders, the Citigroup analysts wrote.Yahoo has reportedly held talks with Google and AOL to explore alternatives to a Microsoft acquisition. One scenario being floated would be for Yahoo to outsource its search advertising business to Google, while another, reported Monday by The Times of London, has Yahoo and Time Warner&#39;s AOL discussing a possible merger.However, neither option would match the potential benefits of an acquisition by Microsoft, Moran said. &quot;A combined Yahoo-AOL wouldn&#39;t be particularly strong, and Yahoo&#39;s stock wouldn&#39;t react favorably to that deal,&quot; Moran said. A search partnership with Google would boost Yahoo&#39;s revenue, but it wouldn&#39;t address larger problems within the company, he said.For Moran, if Yahoo has approached AOL, it has done so probably to send a message to Microsoft that it has other options and that Microsoft has to sweeten its offer. Meanwhile, Google&#39;s intervention is probably directed at complicating and lengthening the negotiation process between Microsoft and Yahoo and thus delaying the formation of a stronger rival, Moran said.While merging with AOL is unlikely to give Yahoo the boost it needs, such a deal would probably be more palatable to Yahoo&#39;s management because Yahoo would be the strongest party in the fusion, according to industry analyst Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Intelligence.&quot;Yahoo sees its own demise in a Microsoft acquisition. My sense is that Yahoo&#39;s management believes that Yahoo&#39;s soul wouldn&#39;t survive as part of Microsoft,&quot; Sterling said.At this point, the situation is very complicated for both Microsoft and Yahoo. If Yahoo is intent on fending off Microsoft&#39;s advances at all costs, Microsoft could opt to walk away empty-handed and face a public embarrassment, or attempt a hostile takeover, which could alienate and scare away Yahoo employees it would want to retain, Sterling said.At the same time, Yahoo can&#39;t simply wave away a generous Microsoft offer if it doesn&#39;t have an alternative to it, Sterling said. &quot;There is a great deal at stake for both sides, and it&#39;s very complicated,&quot; he said.Microsoft declined to comment about Yahoo&#39;s rejection. AOL didn&#39;t immediately reply to a request for comment about its reported merger talks with Yahoo.
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Yahoo! apparently tires of wooing the college-based social networking site.
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A combination of Microsoft and Yahoo could reshape the Internet landscape for millions of Web users: Would the two companies join their online portals? Could they rethink the desktop computer to integrate Web content more directly?