MS board mulls Yahoo options
D-Day looms for Yahvole deal
MICROSOFT’S BOARD met yesterday (Wednesday) to examine the company's options in the never-ending saga of its bid for Yahoo, says the New York Times.
The paper quotes an unnamed MS source who claims one possibility discussed is an increased offer of up to $33 a share, despite long, loud protestations from CEO Steve Ballmer that not now, not ever, never, would the Vole's original offer be raised from its current value of around $29.
Although Yahoo is on record as saying it is not fundamentally opposed to a sale to MS, it has always maintained that the offer price was too low.
Microsoft's bid was originally valued at $44.6 billion, but because the offer was a mixture of stock and cash, it has since dropped to less than $42 billion due to a fall in MS' share price.
Spokespersons for all parties involved remain tight-lipped, reports the Times. µ
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Ballmer Today At 9am PDT.
HOT, HOT News. 5:45 EDTSteve "d'Emballmer" Ballmer was seen leaving YAHOO HQ Yesterday at 3PM. Next Msr. Ballmer scheduled Employee Conference at Microsoft for today at 9AM Pacific Daylight Time(US). Until 9AM there, NO actual decision on what will be told employees of Microsoft will be. Some Guesstimates are $35 per share & certain Laying Off of certain Employees.XXX. Microsoft has 70,000 worker Ants & Yahoo less than 20,000. So who'll WIN?+
No doubt "Can an ANT Move Rubber Tree Plant" be most discussed.
Thomas Drashek
Lets hope the deal falls through
Now that Google has turned evil, there needs to be as many competitors as possible for websearching.Just try and find a free PDF of a particular research paper using Google. Just recently, it's got pretty tricky, but Yahoo! Works! Just! Fine! Google has broken Google Scholar too. Pretty much all the results link to dodgy pay-sites.
(Evil bastards!)