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Icahn has bid adieu to Yahoo!. Months after publicly battling management to sell the company to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn quietly announced his resignation from Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on Friday. The Deal Pipeline (subscription required) has more details on the Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal and earnings.Yahoo!...
Posted on October 26, 2009 10:04 AM
Making itself a more attractive target, Yahoo! Inc. filed papers in Delaware state court to settle shareholder lawsuits over a broad severance package adopted to deter Microsoft Corp.'s unwelcome $47.5 billion takeover bid. The package would have guaranteed almost all employees cash-and-stock benefits if their jobs were negatively affected...
Posted on December 11, 2008 10:01 AM
At The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference Wednesday, dealmakers got into business psychology and the deal economy. The Deal's middle-market editor Nathaniel Baker noted that with the IPO markets all but removed as a realistic option, dealmakers must come up with creative alternatives for exits in 2009.Two options panelists...
Posted on November 12, 2008 3:56 PM
The Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. marriage is off, as Tech Confidential's Alain Sherter so eloquently explains. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said there will be no outright acquisition of Yahoo!, but did say a partnership in the search engine market is possible. Ballmer didn't give details about what that deal may...
Posted on November 7, 2008 9:16 AM
At the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Wednesday night, Yahoo! Inc. CEO Jerry Yang said "To this day, I have to say that the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo. I don't think that is a bad idea at all ... at the right price, whatever the price is, we are willing to sell...
Posted on November 6, 2008 9:19 AM
Google Inc.'s search advertising deal with Yahoo! Inc. appears to be on its last legs as antitrust officials question the alliance's dominance of the search market. Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has said the Google deal may add $800 million a year to sales. That figure may get slashed if...
Posted on November 4, 2008 3:40 PM
Breaking news: On the subject of a search advertising deal with Yahoo! Inc., which is facing a U.S. Justice Department probe, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt said "We are going to move forward ... We are in the process of talking to the government. Also, Microsoft just emerged as the mystery bidder for Greenfield Online Inc., wresting the Internet price-comparison and survey firm from the arms of Quadrangle Group LLC ...
Posted on August 29, 2008 9:42 AM
On the Icahn-Microsoft Corp. alliance, or "marriage of convenience": Bostock and Yang say "Icahn has made it clear that his only objective is to sell part or all of Yahoo! to Microsoft. That fact, combined with his lack of an operating plan going forward, means that he will have no leverage to negotiate a fair deal...
Posted on July 17, 2008 3:06 PM
On Monday, I posted on the political donations of executives from Anheuser-Busch Cos., Google Inc., Electronic Arts Inc. and Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. But that was just a fraction of what I turned up plugging names into this campaign search tool at Huffingtonpost.com. All told, I searched about 20 corporate...
Posted on July 1, 2008 11:20 AM
Yahoo! Inc. upset shareholders because of the way it handled Microsoft Corp.'s now retracted $47.5 billion offer. Now Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang is stuck looking for other strategic options to appease the dissidents. An alliance with Google Inc. may not get antitrust approval as that would give Yahoogle!, which recently...
Posted on May 15, 2008 9:12 AM
He's not known as someone who gives up without a fight, so when Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer raised the offer for Yahoo! Inc. from $44.6 billion to $47.5 billion then walked away from deal talks, many initially thought it was a negotiating tactic. But Silicon Alley Insider makes...
Posted on May 6, 2008 2:58 PM
As we like to say here at Corporate Dealmaker: It's never too early to start thinking integration. So with the Microsoft Corp.-Yahoo! Inc. battle flaring up, we couldn't help but give it some thought. OK, we know this is a battle that will no doubt carry on for months, what...
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:51 AM
Microsoft Corp. Friday announced 14 executive promotions -- seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents. Among those receiving new titles is Satya Nadella, now SVP of search, portals and advertising. PC World magazine suggests MSFT is shuffling to prepare for...
Posted on February 15, 2008 10:27 AM
Breaking news Saturday night from the AP: Yahoo! Inc.'s Board of Directors plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s offer, saying $44.6 billion undervalues the firm. The AP speculates Microsoft could attempt to oust Yahoo!'s board and make an offer directly to shareholders (who may be frustrated with management...
Posted on February 9, 2008 5:31 PM
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo! Inc., losing search market share to Google Inc., is at a restructuring crossroads. The company's 2007 fourth-quarter results are tugging the share price down: Net income went from $268.7 million in the fourth quarter 2006 to $205.7 million, about a 23.4% drop. As expected, co-founder and CEO...
Posted on January 30, 2008 2:33 PM
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