http://bub.blicio.us/yahooooooo-microsoft-proposed-acquisition/ Covering the social economy driving the new Web Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:04:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bub.blicio.us/yahooooooo-microsoft-proposed-acquisition/comment-page-1/#comment-61066 bub.blicio.us Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:31:54 +0000 http://bub.blicio.us/?p=677#comment-61066 [...] the beginning of the year. After fourth quarter results from 2007 were reported, there was the announcement of about 1000 layoffs for Yahoo! employees wordwide. Then a couple of days afterwards, there washuge announcement by Microsoft wanting to acquire Yahoo! for 44.6 billion dollars. The deal got rejected buteveryone is still waiting to see what will happen next as the deal is not completely gone. Since then, Yahoo! has revealed high expectations for the next two years, joined the OpenSocial initiative, and has had plenty of increased advertising. It is tough to say whether Jerry Yang and the board members are trying to get more money, look for more alternatives with other partners/alliances or just fend off Microsoft completely and let Jerry Yang succeed in running his ”baby”. [...] [...] the beginning of the year. After fourth quarter results from 2007 were reported, there was the announcement of about 1000 layoffs for Yahoo! employees wordwide. Then a couple of days afterwards, there washuge announcement by Microsoft wanting to acquire Yahoo! for 44.6 billion dollars. The deal got rejected buteveryone is still waiting to see what will happen next as the deal is not completely gone. Since then, Yahoo! has revealed high expectations for the next two years, joined the OpenSocial initiative, and has had plenty of increased advertising. It is tough to say whether Jerry Yang and the board members are trying to get more money, look for more alternatives with other partners/alliances or just fend off Microsoft completely and let Jerry Yang succeed in running his ”baby”. [...]

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