Microsoft makes a bid for Yahoo
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Microsoft made an unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Internet portal Yahoo Friday.
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Microsoft Friday unveiled a hostile 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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Microsoft Corp made a  bid to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion in cash and stock,  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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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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Software giant Microsoft urged Yahoo to accept its "generous" 44.6 billion dollar takeover offer, adding it hoped to get a quick response from the major Internet player.
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More competition courtesy of the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo! combo?
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The Wall Street Journal reports that no serious bids have emerged to rival Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. That doesn't mean the company isn't still trying to piece something together.
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Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.
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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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A chorus of Wall Street analysts are urging Yahoo to take the deal, now that it's clear no other buyers are really emerging. But they're also saying it's time for Microsoft to raise its original offer for Yahoo in order to make it happen.
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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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Microsoft Corp  has made an  unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo Inc  for $44.6 billion  in cash and stock, 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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Microsoft Corp  will authorize  a proxy battle for Yahoo Inc  this week to convince the  Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover deal that the  Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York Times' DealBook  blog said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $42 billion purchase of Yahoo Inc. would establish the world's largest software maker as a "strong No. 2 competitor" against online search leader Google Inc., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday.
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Microsoft Corp  will  authorize a proxy battle for Yahoo Inc  this week to  convince the Web company's shareholders to agree on a takeover  deal that the Yahoo board so far has rejected, the New York  Times' Dealbook blog said on Tuesday.
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Yahoo! gets into the game with its latest acquisition.
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Yahoo looks for alternatives to Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.