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slugger
10-04-2008, 08:00 AM
searching for Yahoo +warner did not turn up a relevant result here


April 9 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL are close to striking a deal to combine their Internet operations, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation.

Yahoo would also propose buying billions of dollars of its own stock and is negotiating to display Internet search ads from Google, the newspaper said.

Under the terms of the deal, Time Warner would combine its Internet unit with Yahoo and take a 20 percent stake in the combined company, the Journal said. Yahoo would buy back its shares at a price between $30 and $40 a share, the newspaper said.

A final agreement would be offered to Yahoo shareholders for approval, the Journal said, citing the unidentified people.


Source (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anUGOEJZ9PTk&refer=home#)

Since it was a News that was more about Yahoo and Time Warner rather than MS, I created a new thread. If wrong, feel free to merge it :)

DigitalDude
10-04-2008, 08:49 AM
HOLY COW :D

thats what MS is saying at present :p


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naveen_reloaded
10-04-2008, 10:34 AM
Ms its now your move....
Why dont you buy warner instead?

slugger
10-04-2008, 10:42 AM
well when it comes to business nobody things twice before jumpin in bed with the enemy

News Corp Talking To Microsoft About Joining Yahoo Bid (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/09/news-corp-talking-to-microsoft-about-joining-yahoo-bid/)

News Corp was incidentally who Yahoo was having talks with to thwart the bid from MS :rolleyes:

Yahoo And News Corp. Continue Marathon Discussions; Possible Bid To Counter Microsoft (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/12/yahoo-and-news-corp-continue-marathon-discussions-possible-bid-to-counter-microsoft/)

Hrithan2020
14-04-2008, 01:14 PM
Hope the deal pays off in at least increasing the overall worth of Yahoo so that MS buys it for 60 billn>>>:)

kumarmohit
14-04-2008, 01:56 PM
They would much rather opt for hostile takeover instead of paying $60bn. After all MS is not what it is for nothing!

desiibond
14-04-2008, 02:01 PM
If Yahoo stays determined, MS will never be able to buy Yahoo!!. Moreover, Google supporting Yahoo could well be a big blow to MS.

If Yahoo! buys AOL, it could well be end of story. Who knows, MS might then do a hostile takeover of News Corp.

DigitalDude
14-04-2008, 02:09 PM
^^^
mate your post sound like a bowl of maggi noodles :D

btw these are old news... talks of a deal with AOL closing on soon was probably just someone's imagination :p and the rumours of a joint bid by News Corp with MS was also striked down as highly unlikely..

yahoo is just a cat on the wall now as you can see from this post http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/12/yahoo-fence-sitting-will-meet-with-microsoft-and-aol-next-week/


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