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Yahoo Smart To Reject Latest Microsoft-Icahn Offer, Which Was Just a Proxy Ploy

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2008-07-13 08:52:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
Microsoft (MSFT) and Carl Icahn made another formal, non-negotiable offer on Friday night to buy Yahoo's search assets (without releasing details) and gave the company 24 hours to accept or reject it. Yahoo (YHOO) rejected it. Yahoo also blasted Microsoft for its erratic behavior and "suggested" that Microsoft just buy the whole company for $33...
 
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Yahoo's Yang and Bostock Explain Their Google-Microsoft Decision, Ask For Your Vote

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2008-06-25 22:09:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Microsoft alternative. They also point out that Carl Icahn has no clue what to do with the company now that Microsoft no longer wants to buy it. They therefore urge you to vote for them at the upcoming shareholder meeting, instead of Carl On the Icahn point, we agree: Carl made a big bet and lost. Better to stick with a management team that...
 
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Yahoo! Speaks Yang way; rejects Microsoft/Icahn plans at Yahoos makeover

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2008-07-13 06:54:52 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Microsoft to oust him . But the latest proposal bieng made by Microsoft to acquire Yaho has been declined by Yahoo. A kick too hard to burst the software giants bubble. The latest offer was a modification of theprevious one being made by Microsoft to acquire Yahoos search business that was also rejected by Yahoo in favor of Yahoo teaming up...
 
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Yahoo's Latest Pitch: Carl Is Clueless, Microsoft Isn't Serious, But We'll Spin Off Asia If That's What It Takes

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2008-07-17 07:46:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Microsoft hasn't been serious about buying us. Meanwhile We'll sell the company for $33, if someone makes us a real offer, and We'll sell search, too, if someone makes us a real offer Yahoo also says it's willing to spin-off or sell its Asia assets and pay out a dividend to shareholders, both arguments we don't think we've heard before. Why...
 
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Yang and the Board eager for Microsoft deal; Icahn still bad for Yahoo

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2008-07-18 07:33:52 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...Microsoft , stating that it might sell its shares for $33 each. However there have quite a lot of demands put up that clearly state how exactly the proposal from Microsoft becomes acceptable by Yahoo and the stockholders are guaranteed the real value The letter issued by Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang has clarified as to why they have been...
 
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Microsoft's Secret Plan To Kill Google Explained

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2008-05-23 10:44:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Microsoft (MSFT) about the economics of Live Search cashback, its new commerce search system. More on that soon, but first an overview of Microsoft's latest macro plan to kill Google (GOOG), about which we were also educated And in fairness to Microsoft, we should begin by saying the company didn't present it as a "secret plan to kill...
 
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Yahoo Issues Letter Defending Google Deal: No Free Milk For Microsoft

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2008-06-25 21:24:54 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...Microsoft For the record, we agree - given a choice between the Google and Microsoft search deals, Googles was better, even with the steep fees if Yahoo chooses to sell itself to a competitor later. But the Microsoft deal would permanently hobble Yahoo , the cash flow upside wasnt sweet enough But heres whats really going on: Yahoo doesnt...
 
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Microsoft Signals It Would Rather Talk To An Icahn-Controlled Yahoo

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2008-07-07 13:42:38 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...Microsoft have been talking to each other (as has everyone else involved in a possible Yahoo deal, including Yahoo and AOL over the weekend ). In a letter to shareholders, reproduced below, Icahn notes that he and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer have been discussing possible transactions over the past week, and that Ballmer made it clear to me...
 
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New Microsoft Offer, Quickly Rejected

2008-07-13 05:22:23 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch