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| Microsoft walks away from Yahoo! | | Yahoo! Google strategem pays no dividends
Microsoft today abandoned attempts to buy Yahoo!, after a short weekend of negotiations in which it raised its offer by $5bn to $33 a share.
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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 [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Mar-2008 by Silicon in YHOOMSFT
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