comes...
and then eventually...
Posted on 04/06/2008 6:29:22 AM PDT by Mike Acker
"If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three weeks, we will be compelled to take our case directly to your shareholders, including the initiation of a proxy contest to elect an alternative slate of directors for the Yahoo board," wrote Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.
"If we are forced to take an offer directly to your shareholders, that action will have an undesirable impact on the value of your company from our perspective which will be reflected in the terms of our proposal," he wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at biz.yahoo.com ...
Oddly, the notice was printed on blue paper, with a number of hexadecimal character blocks directly below. The Blue Takeover Offer of Death!
Anyone else notice Yahoo was only intermittently working yesterday?
/mark
We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile. We will take your technical excellence and pollute it with our mediocrity. You create, we assimilate and destroy.
That sounds an awful lot like extortion to me.
The massive suicide watch of the Mac Cult members would almost be entertaining enough to root for Microsoft to buy Apple.
I do expect a merger of minds between Google and Apple however. Microsoft is their common enemy and I expect the level of cooperation between the two to accelerate.
Yahoo should take the offer. Microsoft is overpaying.
I imagine that before Microsoft’s deadline arrives, their offer will crash, losing all of their work thus far and requiring them to start over.
Not at all—this is typical for hostile and semi-hostile takeovers.
They don’t call that guy the ‘Embalmer’ for nothing.
Yahoo would be well advised to take the offer, it is generous and more than what Yahoo’s stock is worth.
If you’re going to be eaten, and have a choice between getting washed down with a fine Chianti or some cheap brand like Thunderbird, go for the Chianti.
Buy him out boys!
> letter from Hitler?
Translation at:
Microhoo: Ballmer takes off his gloves
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9912291-80.html
Everytime Mafiasoft buys or partners with a
web site, it gets removed from my bookmarks.
I haven’t missed any of them.
I would agree...Google & Apple will find a reason to merge. I would also speculate that with the position of the US dollar...it may very well be...that a Japanese company comes out to buy up Apple within the next twelve months.
We can also safely say that Yahoo’s grand future is now pretty much limited...as they are swallowed up by Microsoft. I don’t think the term Yahoo will exist in ten years and we will simply remember them as part of the start-up of the internet.
Netscape was first?.
rof,lol!
good job!
It’s a shame this is happening. I really like everything about Yahoo’s e-mail and news...
Sounds like MS is making Yahoo an offer they dare not refuse. Unlike the Hitler comparison, at least Balmer won’t liquidate the Yahoo CEO (I hope).
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