Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

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Friends,

From a news alert sent by The New York Times:

Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday
that it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc. in a proposed cash
and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.

Microsoft said that it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per
share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above
the company's closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday.

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[ScottK]

Heard this on the news this AM.
Not impressed.

Hey Microsoft - know why I switched to from Yahoo's to Google's home page?
Non-intrusive ads.
Think about it.

 

[silentrunning]

Yahoo has to be the worst search engine available. Yesterday I wanted to look up a customer's home page to get contact info. On Yahoo the first 5 entries were all yellow pages type sites. The first one on Google was my customer. Go figure.

 

[Stijloor]

Yahoo has to be the worst search engine available. Yesterday I wanted to look up a customer's home page to get contact info. On Yahoo the first 5 entries were all yellow pages type sites. The first one on Google was my customer. Go figure.

Microsoft may now vista-ize yahoo.

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