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Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks to Avoid Hostile Fight or Bid Withdrawal*  Not "formal" talks, says Kara Swisher, who reported them. Just "informal talks." Which of course are the same thing:
According to sources close to both companies, there are informal
discussions now taking place between Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft
(MSFT)-via bankers, board members, shareholders and others close to
both companies-to try to prevent a hostile take [..] |
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| Yahoo! talks! to! Time! Warner? And others…
Yahoo! spent the holiday weekend locked in talks with Time Warner. The two are looking for a way to split Yahoo! up in order to fend off Microsoft’s takeover attempt.
TheRegister [..] |
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| News Corp On Microsoft, Yahoo: Talks? What Talks? Asked several times about News Corp.'s interest in combining its MySpace/FIM properties with Yahoo, Microsoft or anyone else, COO Peter Chernin waved off the question during the company's Q3 call. News Corp. is happy where it is, and isn't intent on doing a deal, he said.
Then again, Chernin wasn't emphatic about it. The company is "willing to have strategic conversations if they made se [..] |
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| AOL talks with Microsoft, Yahoo heat up: source
(Reuters) Reuters - Time Warner Inc's discussions to merge
or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft Corp or Yahoo
Inc have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1
shareholders meeting, a source familiar with the discussions
told Reuters on Tuesday. YahooTechNews [..] |
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| Microsoft eyes AOL takeover But is it for real?
Microhoo Time Warner is still trying to flog AOL to either Yahoo! or Microsoft in the event that their on-off merger talks ending completely.
TheRegister [..] |
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| Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo! Microsoft withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Saturday after last-ditch efforts to come to terms on a price proved unsuccessful. Microsoft was willing to pay $33 a share, but Yahoo wanted $37. “Clearly a deal is not to be,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote in a letter to Yahoo.
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| Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Glitch: Can't Find Dissident Yahoo Board Members* One of the next steps in the Microsoft-Yahoo melodrama (MSFT) (YHOO) is for Microsoft to nominate a slate of directors to replace the ones it will try to get fired at Yahoo's shareholder meeting (Jerry, Roy Bostock, et al). The problem? The "word on the street" is that Microsoft can't find anyone willing to take on the job, says the Post's Peter Lauria.
We had assumed that Microsoft coul [..] |
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The last word on Microsoft-Yahoo is that the companies are furiously discussing a byzantine transaction in which Microsoft buys Yahoo's search business and that Microsoft is holding open the [..]
Yahoo's stock (YHOO) has staged a strong recovery this afternoon, rising steadily since mid-morning, when it dropped below $26. Is word leaking out that Microsoft (MSFT) is going hostile or raising its bid?
UPDATE: Microsoft and Yahoo in Informal Talks
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CNBC is reporting that Microsoft is suddenly open to merger talks with Yahoo again, despite Microsoft's having categorically denied this yesterday. Microsoft, however, says that CNBC is wrong [..]
Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are talking again, say TechCrunch, CNET, and an SAI source.
TechCrunch's sources say the two are talking about a full buyout. One of our sources wa [..]
Now that Microsoft and Yahoo have ended talks, AOL (TWX) is in play. Not officially, perhaps, but certainly unofficially. The two most likely AOL buyers, moreover, are... [..]
Microsoft and Carl Icahn tell us that if we fire Jerry Yang and Yahoo's board at the shareholder meeting next month, they'll restart deal talks. Specifically, they'll discuss a search dea [..]
UPDATE: An SAI source confirms that Yahoo and Google have reached a search deal. The source believes that the deal will start small and ratchet up [..]
