Will Microsoft buy Yahoo?
p2pnet.net news:- Will Bill and the Boyz buy Yahoo? Or won’t they?
Word of their alleged interest has been circulating for quite a while and, “After giving a presentation about Microsoft’s enterprise software, Ballmer was asked by moderator M.R. Rangaswami of Sand Hill Group about Microsoft’s acquisition strategy,” says the IDG News Service, going on:
“While not mentioning Yahoo, Rangaswami asked Ballmer if Microsoft would acquire a company with a ‘$40 billion or $50 billion’ valuation, a reference to published reports last week that Microsoft was in negotiations earlier this year to acquire Yahoo for about that amount.”
Some might say Yahoo would be a less than desirable acquisition, at least until it’s dealt with Yu Ling, the wife of Chinese Net dissident Wang Xiaoning, jailed for 10 years after distributing material by email and through Yahoo! Groups he’d established anonymously in mainland China and Hong Kong.
Yahoo is associated with several similar cases. But then, Microsoft has been also tarred with human rights brushes involving China, as have Google and Cicsco.
Be that as it may, in the last 12 months, Microsoft acquired 15 to 20 companies, Ballmer said, pointing to the, “2000 acquisition of Great Plains Software, which propelled Microsoft into the business planning software market, as an example of using a merger to thrust itself into a new market,” says Reuters.
” ‘I don’t think you should expect that most of our growth should come from buying large companies and taking costs out,’ Ballmer said, adding that such cost-reduction strategies are useful in slow-growing, more mature industries, but not software.”
Also See:
IDG News Service – Ballmer coy about Yahoo acquisition prospects, May 11, 2007
less than desirable – Jailed dissident’s wife to sue Yahoo, March 8, 2007
Reuters – Microsoft CEO says large deals “conceivable”, May 10, 2007
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