Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
Google aren't impressed! 
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04-02-2008, 17:24
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
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...We take Internet openness, choice and innovation seriously...
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Except in China, of course. 
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...To make money, Google has become a servile Pekinese dog wagging its tail at the heels of the Chinese Communists...
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9abb5ca2-d...0779fd2ac.html
Last edited by TheNorm : 04-02-2008 at 17:29.
Reason: Added a link to my statement.
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04-02-2008, 17:32
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
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04-02-2008, 18:07
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
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But then you would want to call the user interface a Y-front.
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04-02-2008, 19:05
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
Now thats below the belt.
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04-02-2008, 19:11
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
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But would it look pants?
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Now thats below the belt.
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And a line of text invoking Google is a G-string. |
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06-04-2008, 10:46
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
Microsoft are getting impatient!
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Computer software giant Microsoft has given Yahoo a three-week deadline to respond to its offer to buy out the internet company for $44.6bn (£22.3bn).
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his company would take its case directly to Yahoo's shareholders if Yahoo's directors did not respond by 26 April.
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04-05-2008, 11:11
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Re: Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo
Now they've given up altogether, not even going for a hostile bid...
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"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal."
Mr Ballmer also told Yahoo's boss that he would not pursue his original plan B of launching a hostile takeover battle, because Mr Yang would "take steps that would make Yahoo undesirable as an acquisition for Microsoft".
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