MS interested in buying Yahoo...?

[Sporkman]

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Yahoo shares up in pre-market on report Microsoft interested

By Steve Goldstein
Last update: 9:29 a.m. EST Jan. 10, 2008

LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Yahoo rose 2.9% in pre-market trade, following a report in The New York Post that sources close to Microsoft say the company is still debating if it should make last year's informal offer to buy the search firm official by going public with its bid. The Post last year reported on Microsoft-Yahoo talks, though other outlets reported the discussions were more on a partnership and not a takeover.

[JacobRogers]

I'm interested in buying yahoo too.

[jrusso2]

Micorosft has been trying to buy Yahoo for years. They have not been able to get them to agree to their price.

[edm1]

Is this what they meant by pitting themselves against google?

[markyb86]

hah its says they compete with apple...

If they lost to apple, they would still win! they own like 80 percent of apple, and steve jobs is like 80% bill gates

[~LoKe]

Yahoo would sell to Google before they sold to Microsoft.

[Sporkman]

Yahoo would sell to Google before they sold to Microsoft.

Antitrust issues. A combined Yahoo-Google would own about 95% of the search market.

[Tundro Walker]

I thought MS already owned Yahoo. Yahoo always did pro-MS stuff, which always made me think this.

[angryfirelord]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...UQY&refer=news

Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, made an unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo! Inc. for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share.

The offer is 62 percent more than Yahoo's closing stock price yesterday, according to a Microsoft statement distributed by PR Newswire. Yahoo shareholders can choose cash or stock, Microsoft said.

Microsoft and Yahoo explored ways to work together in late 2006 and early 2007, according to a letter Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer sent to the Yahoo board. Yahoo rejected the idea of being taken over by Microsoft a year ago, the letter said.

``While a commercial partnership may have made sense at one time, Microsoft believes that the only alternative now is the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! that we are proposing,'' the letter said. ``This proposal represents a compelling value realization event for your shareholders.''

We are Microsoft. Surrender your keyboards. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.

[Polygon]

that would be pretty huge if they bought yahoo. Im guessing they want their search engine / website portal....isnt yahoo either the first or the second most visited site...ever? (either above or one below google?)