Acquisition Discussions

Ballmer says “No” to a post-Yang Yahoo buyout — Ending speculation that another Microsoft-Yahoo deal may be on the table after the exit of Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer said at a Wednesday shareholder meeting “Let me be clear. We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo.” His announcement sent Yahoo’s shares into a 20% nosedive, closing at $9.13 at days end. Ballmer did tell shareholders that Microsoft may still be open to a search deal with Yahoo but those slightly encouraging words did not soften the blow of his comments dismissing a possible acquisition. Is this really the death knell for a Microsoft-Yahoo merger? Maybe, maybe not.... [Tags: acquisition discussions, ceo, death knell, decline, encouraging words]

Yahoo’s stock rockets…downward — Those who were hoping that Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang stepping down would solve Yahoo’s recent stock woes got a very rude awakening today — to the tune of a 20.87 percent drop in share price. Yes, Yahoo’s stock is now below $10 a share, closing the day at $9.14. The stock hasn’t been at this level since the very beginning of 2003. More importantly, it’s now barely more than the mid-$30 a share price Microsoft was willing to pay to acquire the company just a few months ago. (Of course on the stock side, Microsoft isn’t doing much better,... [Tags: acquisition discussions, confusion, decade, jerry yang, lyons]

MSFT: For Real, We’re Not Buying Yahoo . . . Except Maybe Search — The world has changed a lot since January 31, 2008. In case you’ve just tuned in, here’s a quick recap of the last nine and a half months: Microsoft makes an unsolicited bid for Yahoo. Yahoo stocks make a serious jump. Yahoo really thought it over, but decided to go with a search ad deal with Google instead. Google dropped Yahoo. Yahoo stocks take a serious dive. Yahoo dropped CEO Jerry Yang. Yep, that’s it in a nutshell. Despite Yahoo’s initial rejection and later renewed-then-foundered courtship with Microsoft, rumors have persisted that Microsoft is still interested in purchasing all or... [Tags: acquisition discussions, andy beal, ceo steve ballmer, courtship, google]

Steve Bomb-mer Drops Another One on Yahoo, Whose Shares Tank to $9, As Microsoft Settles on Digital Head Pick — At least Yahoo got one day of stock euphoria, on the news that its CEO Jerry Yang was stepping down, before Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dropped yet another bomb on the troubled Internet giant, by saying once more with feeling that he is not at all interested in buying it. Yahoo (YHOO) stock plummeted on the news, dropping below $10 a share, to close at $9.14, down $2.41 or an astonishing 21 percent. While lack of interest in acquiring Yahoo is a sentiment that Ballmer has expressed more times than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said “maverick” in the Presidential... [Tags: acquisition discussions, alaska gov, boomtown, brick by brick, ceo steve ballmer]

Jerry Yang’s Departure $24-a-Share Too Late… [Digital Daily] — To this day, I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo.” – Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, last week Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knocked the wind out of Yahoo’s share price again today when he dismissed the notion that Redmond might renew its bid for the foundering Internet company now that Yahoo’s $2 billion man has agreed to step down as CEO. “Let me be as clear as I think I’ve tried to be publicly,” Ballmer said at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Wednesday. “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said... [Tags: acquisition discussions, ceo steve ballmer, internet company, jerry yang, microsoft]

Ballmer Dismisses Yahoo Buyout But Open On Search — BELLEVUE, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving by 19 percent. "Let me be clear," Ballmer said at Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting. "We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo." Yahoo spurned a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft in May, and later rejected Microsoft's bid to buy only its search engine. Ballmer has said repeatedly of late that the buyout remains off... [Tags: acquisition discussions, business software, ceo steve ballmer, googles, internet search]

QOTD — QOTD Let me be as clear as I think I’ve tried to be publicly: We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. We have moved on. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer knocks the wind out of Yahoo’s share price again... [Tags: acquisition discussions, ceo steve ballmer, microsoft, microsoft ceo, share price]

Microsoft Says No Merger, Yang or No Yang; Yahoo Stock Tanks — View the full YHOO chart at Wikinvest View the full YHOO chart at Wikinvest UPDATE: Yahoo shares tank on Ballmer's remarks. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in his first remarks about Yahoo since CEO Jerry Yang said he'd step down, said his company had no interest reopening merger talks. "Let me be clear," Ballmer told shareholders. "We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo." Yahoo shares plummeted 17% on the news. The sell-off put Yahoo shares under $10 to what would be a new 52-week low -- more than erasing Tuesday gains that were based on optimism Yang's departure... [Tags: acquisition discussions, bargaining table, ceo steve ballmer, cockeyed optimist, coffin]

Microsoft's Ballmer: Read My Lips—No Bid For Yahoo — In case you didn't believe him the first 20 times, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer repeated today at the company's annual shareholders' meeting that he has no intention of making another offer for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Ballmer's words, reported by MarketWatch: "Let me be as clear as I think I've tried to be publicly: We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. We have moved on." Ballmer also repeated that a potential search deal could be "an interesting opportunity." Not clear whether he means acquiring Yahoo's search business, as he tried to do after the full-monty bid failed,... [Tags: acquisition discussions, ceo, full monty, intention, jerry yang]

Ballmer: Yahoo acquisition won't happen — A change at the helm of Yahoo won't revive a Microsoft takeover offer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said during the company's annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday."Acquisition discussions are finished," he said.[ For complete coverage of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger talks, see InfoWorld's special report. | Keep up on the latest tech news headlines at InfoWorld News, or subscribe to the Today's Headlines newsletter. ]But he continues to leave the door open to another sort of deal with Yahoo. Microsoft is still interested in doing some sort of search collaboration deal, as it proposed before negotiations between the companies fell apart.On Monday, Yahoo... [Tags: acquisition discussions, annual shareholders meeting, bill gates, ceo steve ballmer, earnings growth]

Ballmer: 'We are done' with Yahoo acquisition idea — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer threw his daily bucket of cold water on the notion that the software maker would return with a new bid for all of Yahoo. "We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo," Ballmer said, adding that he has said this a bunch of times but ... Originally posted at News - Microsoft... [Tags: acquisition discussions, ceo steve ballmer, cold water, microsoft, microsoft ceo]

In one of the tackiest attempts at a viral employee morale/marketing campaign since the infamous Nixon-Peabody song, Yahoo is launching a brand awareness campaign they are calling "Start Wearing Purple" designed to promote the brand as well as remind employees what that whole "bleeding purple" phrase was supposed to have meant. In a post on Yodel Anecdotal, the Yahoo corporate blog, Yahoo's Senior Director, Brand Advertising Nick Chavez spins the new campaign in a way that only Prince could love, including the history of purple at Yahoo, a brief intro to the campaign, and a theme song only Yahoo... [Tags: acquisition discussions, adfreak, attempts, awareness campaign, blitz]