Technology king Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) bid 44.6 billion dollars in cash and stock to acquire Yahoo (YHOO) today. Microsoft???s chief executive Steve Ballmer said that they have a great respect for Yahoo and along with MSN, they could offer an increasingly exciting mix in the search engine world. Yahoo was not available for comment but I???m sure that we will be hearing quite a bit from the media scene in the next couple of days.Yahoo shares rose 56% to 29.65 in premarket trading on Friday following the announcement of the potential Yahoo sale. U.S. Stock futures also jumped after hearing the news.

I actually read an article the other day that said Yahoo was having a rough time. Maybe they are going to accept? It will be interesting to see.

Saw this on BloomBerg this morning.

I wonder whats gonna happen.

I think Yahoo shareholders will pressure Yahoo to sell.

Originally Posted by bizwiz

I think Yahoo shareholders will pressure Yahoo to sell.

Trust me, with the news of Yahoo cash woes in the recent past...............44.6 Bil is a DONE DEAL!!! ;)

Originally Posted by Hunter1

Trust me, with the news of Yahoo cash woes in the recent past...............44.6 Bil is a DONE DEAL!!! ;)

:) Would certainely be something fun to "watch" cant wait to see what happens!

Originally Posted by domainer50

:) Would certainely be something fun to "watch" cant wait to see what happens!

I actually can't wait to see what Yahoo spends the money on!!!

Originally Posted by Hunter1

I actually can't wait to see what Yahoo spends the money on!!!

may be they will use to make another search engine :D
i will too see what will happen to the future of

Originally Posted by sb225

i will too see what will happen to the future of

I don't want to get off topic, but GOOG stock dropped 50 dollars, and YHOO jumped up 9.

I can't wait to see whats going to happen tomorrow.:):)

Well I think that Goog might have a chance at this yet because now Yahoo is saying that the stock at 32 bucks is under valued and they are going to re-visit talks that they had a few months ago with Goog to possibly form a business alliance!

This will get more interesting yet!!!

Originally Posted by Hunter1

This will get more interesting yet!!!

Definitely, it will be a search engine war... :)

Originally Posted by weblord

they are still living in the spirit of bill gates, and also if they can't join it, they have to buy it.

As they most likely will :)

UPDATE: Yahoo has declined Microsofts offer... They want more money haha

Originally Posted by Neusha G.

UPDATE: Yahoo has declined Microsofts offer... They want more money haha

yes Yahoo board Declined Microsoft's Offer

Just for an update for everyone, MSN had a meeting tonight to decide on Yahoo!

"Faced with the same options it has been facing for some time, Microsoft's board apparently just couldn't choose one of the options.

The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday that Microsoft's directors failed to decide on a next step for the software maker amid Yahoo's unwillingness to negotiate a deal. The software maker is said to be weighing whether to go directly to Yahoo shareholders and at what price, whether to just nominate its own slate of directors, or whether to walk away from its bid.

Citing sources close to the matter, the Journal said an announcement is expected "later in the week.""

how many days msn meets with yahoo
msn had just useless knowledge

woow ...mistho

How this thing going? Did MSN buy yahoo already? I guess they wanted to buy yahoo because it is much cheaper process to improve it rather than improving MSN as a whole

Originally Posted by forumer147

How this thing going? Did MSN buy yahoo already? I guess they wanted to buy yahoo because it is much cheaper process to improve it rather than improving MSN as a whole

I haven't heard of any confirmations that MSN bought Yahoo but it is confirmed that Yahoo will be using Bing for their default search engine.