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Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid

Microsoft YahooWell it looks as if Yahoo’s Board will be rejecting the bid from Microsoft Soon. According to Tech Consumer they will send out a letter to Microsoft with these reasons to reject the offer…

  1. Yahoo thinks Microsoft is trying to take advantage of Yahoo’s weak stock price and is saying that Microsoft wants to “steal” the company.
  2. Yahoo board member won’t consider offers below $40 a share, an extra $12 billion (quite the premium, considering the first offer was a 62% premium over Yahoo’s market value).
  3. Yahoo is effectively stalling while it considers an alternative of partnering with Google (ironically, a point that nullifies the original point of Microsoft’s offer not taking into consideration “risks” of regulation, considering the risks of regulation are higher with Google).
  4. Yahoo is hoping that Microsoft will not follow through with a hostile take over (even if Steve Ballmer said as much in his original letter). The reasoning here is that important engineers would not be willing to cooperate in a hostile take over, and regulators may be more easily convinced that this deal is anticompetitive if hostile.

Source: Tech Consumer

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  • CodeBubba
    I'm inclined to agree with hyedipin. Personally I haven't had much contact with Yahoo (Ya-Who?) in recent years. When I look to do a search I use Live Search or Google. I do use Google's "widgets" but that's about it.

    Maybe I'm not typical - but perhaps a team-up with Microsoft would give them more visibility which they seem to be losing.

    -CB :D
  • hyedipin
    Big mistake. They could start another yahoo with that money, I don't think they will ever make more than this bid even if they continue as it is.
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