Yahoo! to Reject Microsoft Bid - Source

Android1 · Feb 9, 2008, 03:59 PM

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft's takeover bid, saying it 'massively undervalues' the company.

(Fortune) -- Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing a person familiar with the situation.

The source, according to the paper, said Yahoo's board believes Microsoft's offer of $31 per share "massively undervalues" the company and does not account for the risk that a deal could be blocked by regulators.

The source also said that the company is unlikely to consider any offer below $40 per share, according to the paper. Such a premium would increase the value of the takeover offer by $12 billion.

Microsoft would not comment to Fortune on the report.

Source: CNNMoney.com

Sound_Card · Feb 9, 2008, 05:46 PM

what is ms thinking anyway? They should invest more into their current portfolio. Like Zune, windows, and xbox. I really think this yahoo buy is a bad idea.

sebazve · Feb 9, 2008, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sound_Card

what is ms thinking anyway? They should invest more into their current portfolio. Like Zune, windows, and xbox. I really think this yahoo buy is a bad idea.

perhaps they have so much money and they don't know what to do with it

Qb2k5 · Feb 9, 2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sebazve

perhaps they have so much money and they don't know what to do with it

They should invest in R3D and give each member who has over 5K posts a million dollars.

TRD Supra · Feb 9, 2008, 07:27 PM

I hope yahoo doesn't do it. Yahoo doesn't need MS to come and F everything up.

Android1 · Feb 9, 2008, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Qb2k5

They should invest in R3D and give each member who has over 5K posts a million dollars.

I agree.

-n7- · Feb 9, 2008, 07:37 PM

I don't find anything Yahoo offers to be worth using.

They aren't worth half of 45M, so i still dunno why MS wants to throw away money.

Crisler · Feb 9, 2008, 08:03 PM

The idea was to gain the user base from the portal, I think this is nuts from Yahoo however. This bid is more than the company is worth and they are nuts to pass it up. In the end however I do not think it will hurt MS.

I think MS would be better servered to take like 2 billion of the proposed bid and use it to buy up the BEST talent from Google and Yahoo and then SMASH them.

Dave · Feb 9, 2008, 10:57 PM

again i ask:

who uses yahoo! anyway? last time i visited the website was atleast 3 years ago.

guest · Feb 9, 2008, 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -n7-

I don't find anything Yahoo offers to be worth using.

They aren't worth half of 45M, so i still dunno why MS wants to throw away money.

Zimbra email is a very good product.

JonZ · Feb 10, 2008, 12:44 AM

hey, at least it not AOL

vitocorleone · Feb 10, 2008, 11:15 AM

yahoo and aol have billions of page hits on their web properties every year. just because you or i don't use them doesnt mean that tens or even hundreds of millions of other people don't! aol may be #4, for example, but its still a player - and a HECK of a lot cheaper than Y! would be for msft to acquire... wouldn't help on the search-front, but aol has a heck of a lot of content, #2 email, #1 total IM, and quite the audience ad reach and click through from what i remember reading. maybe msft will look there next, except google owns a piece of aol already, so if msft acquired them it'd still have to pay google.

Sound_Card · Feb 10, 2008, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRD Supra

I hope yahoo doesn't do it. Yahoo doesn't need MS to come and F everything up.

I hope yahoo does not **** up MS. I could give a rats ass about yahoo.

Android1 · Feb 10, 2008, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dave

again i ask:

who uses yahoo! anyway? last time i visited the website was atleast 3 years ago.

I have a free Yahoo! e-mail account that I use when I want to sign up to forums and newsletters that I do not completely trust with my good accounts. In fact, I used it as my Rage3D e-mail address until a few months ago.

DeathKnight · Feb 10, 2008, 06:23 PM

I have a Yahoo account, but it's only used for access to unlimited music video watching on music.yahoo.com/www.musicvideos.com.

vitocorleone · Feb 11, 2008, 09:37 AM

So Yahoo! did reject the bid from MSFT. Next take-over target for both MSFT and Yahoo!: AOL. Wait and see...

Steve N · Feb 12, 2008, 08:08 PM

My ISP (Rogers) has some kind of deal with Yahoo, and the Rogers homepage is filled with Yahoo content, and I believe our email is even done through Yahoo servers. By buying Yahoo, Microsoft buys the contract with Rogers. I don't use the Yahoo/Rogers homepage, except maybe once a week to check the spam filter, but a lot of customers get it set up by the installation disk and just leave it in place.

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Sound_Card Banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Constantinople Posts: 14,533	what is ms thinking anyway? They should invest more into their current portfolio. Like Zune, windows, and xbox. I really think this yahoo buy is a bad idea.

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-n7- Radeon Arctic Islands Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Edmonton, Alberta Posts: 5,192	I don't find anything Yahoo offers to be worth using. They aren't worth half of 45M, so i still dunno why MS wants to throw away money. __________________ n7 n7

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Feb 9, 2008, 08:03 PM	#8
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Feb 10, 2008, 12:44 AM	#11
JonZ Radeon Arctic Islands Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Unknown Posts: 21,985	hey, at least it not AOL

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vitocorleone Radeon Arctic Islands Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Seattle Posts: 9,415	yahoo and aol have billions of page hits on their web properties every year. just because you or i don't use them doesnt mean that tens or even hundreds of millions of other people don't! aol may be #4, for example, but its still a player - and a HECK of a lot cheaper than Y! would be for msft to acquire... wouldn't help on the search-front, but aol has a heck of a lot of content, #2 email, #1 total IM, and quite the audience ad reach and click through from what i remember reading. maybe msft will look there next, except google owns a piece of aol already, so if msft acquired them it'd still have to pay google. __________________ "Healthy democracies don’t decay overnight. They gradually rot from within, with termites like Trump undermining their foundations." - John Cassidy, The New Yorker

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Feb 11, 2008, 09:37 AM	#16
vitocorleone Radeon Arctic Islands Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Seattle Posts: 9,415	So Yahoo! did reject the bid from MSFT. Next take-over target for both MSFT and Yahoo!: AOL. Wait and see... __________________ "Healthy democracies don’t decay overnight. They gradually rot from within, with termites like Trump undermining their foundations." - John Cassidy, The New Yorker

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Steve N Radeon R420 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 234	My ISP (Rogers) has some kind of deal with Yahoo, and the Rogers homepage is filled with Yahoo content, and I believe our email is even done through Yahoo servers. By buying Yahoo, Microsoft buys the contract with Rogers. I don't use the Yahoo/Rogers homepage, except maybe once a week to check the spam filter, but a lot of customers get it set up by the installation disk and just leave it in place.

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