Microsoft Enters Bid to buy Yahoo! Fuck! 45 Billion dollars!!!!
 

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080201/microsoft_yahoo.html

Jesus.

That's a couple dollars.



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets.

The surprise offer of $31 per share, made late Thursday and announced Friday, seizes on Yahoo's weakness while Microsoft tries to muscle up in a high-stakes battle with Google likely to define the technology landscape for years to come.

In a statement Friday, Yahoo said it will "carefully and promptly" study Microsoft's bid.

With its profits steadily sliding, Yahoo's stock slipped to a four-year low earlier this week and a new management team has been trying to steer a turnaround but sees more turbulence through 2008.

The announcement lifted Yahoo's share price by almost 50 percent in morning trading, while Google fell more than

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Insane amount of money involved

that is nuts , yahoos stock just jumped like crazy today

42,000,000,000.00 is play money for a GFY allstar :eyecrazy

ill bid 48 billion.

i just offered em a crushed soda can and some stale cheetos and they said they'd think about it.

i think ill throw a bid in there

crazy money

should have bought yahoo shares yesterday

What a waste of cash just to keep it away from Google... they dont want it, but if Google gets it... its game over for everyone... everyone run out and buy MS products to save the World

You're a bit late today A1R3K. This thread has already been posted at least 5 times.