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November 20th, 2008

Is Yahoo Regretting Saying No to Microsoft

Image: Microsoft and Yahoo Corporate Brand Identities
My friend Dean commented recently that he bet Yahoo was wishing they had accepted Microsoft’s offer to buy the company not so long ago. When he made the comment, Yahoo stock was at $14.50.
I just looked today and Yahoo stock is at a whopping $8.95 according to Market […]

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July 7th, 2008

Microsoft Interested in a New Yahoo Board

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of […]

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June 7th, 2008

All Not Happy In Yahoo-Land

I just caught an article by Mary Jo Foley where she shares some interesting items that took place around the Yahoo camp during Microsoft’s quest to take over the company. The two most interesting items for me were:

Employee compensation poison pill
Yahoo managers didn’t want Google partnership

First, Yahoo made it more worthwhile for Yahoo […]

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