1 posted on
05/19/2007 11:13:16 PM PDT by
jdm
To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker; martin_fierro; Petronski; Grampa Dave; farlander; shrinkermd
In announcing its biggest acquisition ever, Microsoft has made its most aggressive move to date in trying to narrow the gap with Google Inc. in the online advertising market. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, said it would pay aQuantive shareholders $66.50 a share, a hefty premium to the previous day's closing share price of $35.87. FYI
2 posted on
05/19/2007 11:15:11 PM PDT by
jdm
To: jdm
Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will buy aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion, paying an 85 percent premium to snap up one of the last large independent companies in a consolidating Web advertising market.
Expect an aggressive ad campaign to follow.
To: jdm
Microsoft and anybody else could have bought them for less than a dollar a share back in 2001.
6 posted on
05/20/2007 5:50:32 AM PDT by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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7 posted on
05/20/2007 10:23:09 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
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