Yahoo to Microsoft: Do I Hear $32 Per Share? $33?
Now here’s something you don’t hear every day: Google is losing search market share to Yahoo in the states. According to a new quarterly study by SEO outfit SearchIgnite, spending by search advertisers on Google slipped to 70.4% (down from 74.5%), while spending on Yahoo grew to 24.2% in March from 19.6% at the end of the fourth quarter.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Do I Hear $32 Per Share? Sold to the Software Giant in Row 3!
Much as Yahoo’s second largest shareholder, investment firm Legg Mason, may view Microsoft’s threatening letter as a boorish tactical blunder, the company seems willing to back its proposed takeover of the company at the right price.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Yahoo to Microsoft: I’ve Seen Bigger Offers on a Flea
Yahoo (YHOO) has replied in kind to the acquisitive saber rattling of Microsoft’s (MSFT) weekend letter–albeit with a less menacing saber rattling of the plastic butter knife sort.
In a public letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (addressed “Dear Steve”), Yahoo said it’s not opposed to a deal with Microsoft; it’s just opposed to a deal [...]
Monday, March 10, 2008
Murdoch to Microsoft: U Can Has Yahoo
Asked during a February earnings call whether News Corp. might entertain the idea of a MySpace-Yahoo alliance, company Chairman Rupert Murdoch replied: “I think that day has passed, but you never know.”
Well, now that he’s had about a month to think about it, Murdoch seems more certain that day has passed. In remarks at [...]
Microsoft About to Get Medieval on Yahoo’s Assets
Microsoft (MSFT) is going to the mattresses. Unwilling to take no for an answer in its hostile play for Yahoo (YHOO), the company is preparing for a proxy fight that will undoubtedly turn the closely watched takeover saga into Silicon Valley legend.
When Yahoo’s entire 10-member board comes up for election at the company’s annual meeting–typically [...]
Monday, February 11, 2008
We’ll See How “Substantially Undervalued” You Are After a 6-Month Proxy Fight
Microsoft does not take rejection well, and having already been rebuffed once in an attempt to acquire Yahoo, it’s not about to be rebuffed again.
The software behemoth issued a statement this afternoon calling Yahoo’s rejection of its $31-a-share takeover offer “unfortunate” and vowed to press on with its bid. “It is unfortunate that Yahoo (YHOO) [...]
Friday, February 8, 2008
Welcome to Microsoft
A popular misconception has it that Yahoo is an acronym for “You Always Have Other Options.” (According to Yahoo’s corporate history, it’s an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”)
Well, not this time.
Because it appears to be the beginning of the endgame for Yahoo. Word on the street has it that the company’s board of [...]
Ellison: If BEA Won’t Love Me, Then I’ll Find Someone Who Does
Turns out William Klein, BEA Systems’ vice-president of business planning and development, was sorely mistaken when he said “BEA is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price” Oracle offered for it. Certainly, that’s the opinion of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who says any future Oracle takeover [...]
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- The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Best use of the Beeker “meee” ever.
- Has Bell Invented the “Telegraph Killer”?
While the technology behind the Telephone is new, the design is reassuringly old-fashioned, reminiscent of a phrenologist’s horn or ear-candle in form. We found the experience far more comfortable than the one we had with the Telegraph.
- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
