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How Yahoo! withdrew $ 44.6 billion

The last time I left Yahoo, Jerry Yang (CEO) and the rest of the board Administration had declined to only U.S. $ 44.6 billion acquisition offer from Microsoft for supposedly greener pastures of potential deals with AOL, News Corporation, and / or Google. Rejecting Microsoft's offer was also placed on a current board collision Carl Icahn on what appeared to be a battle for control of Yahoo's board of management.

The tests and tribulation

After spending millions to buy 68.7 million shares of Yahoo, Icahn is set to appoint its own slate of directors Yahoo board for the company's annual shareholder meeting. Icahn would use Yahoo! shareholder fury about the agreement failed with Microsoft win votes for the candidates to its board and board support Yahoo! s. Yahoo! made a preemptive strike and still managed to pacify him by giving Icahn three seats on the board of directors of Yahoo in July. But what about the course deals with AOL, News Corp. and Google?

Well, until now, AOL and News Corp. bid never materialized, at least publicly. However, Google and Yahoo have agreed to a partnership in which Google would place ads in the Yahoo sec The kicker of the agreement was that Google Yahoo! pay more than Yahoo could do with your own ads that is, Google is essentially buying quotas Yahoo! market.

This agreement would be reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and opposition from Microsoft and online advertisers, who claimed the operation would be anticompetitive and result in higher prices for announcements. Ultimately, Google and Yahoo could not to appease the Justice Department investigators, offering to limit the number of ads that are displayed s on the Yahoo and Google turned the offer rather than fight a long legal battle.

Only before Google removed the offer, Yahoo has announced a third quarter profit. Operating profit decreased by 53% and revenues were virtually unchanged compared with the same quarter of 2007. In addition, Yahoo announced it would lay off 1,500 employees as part of its efforts to reduce costs. In total, the offer Microsoft, Icahn test, and the association proposed cost Google Yahoo! U.S. $ 73 million cost of external consultants according to a filing SEC.

Following this double whammy, shares of Yahoo fell to about $ 10 per share 52 weeks of $ 30.25, which came When Microsoft tried to acquire the company. Yahoo's market share research has also continued to decline, falling to 20% in September compared to 22.9% a year ago, according to comScore. What does Skype do? In a word, humbling.

"Today I think the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo, "Yang said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, reports associated press.

Is it for?

For Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said: "We made an offer we made another offer, and it became clear that Yahoo did not sell the business for us and continued We're not interested. go back and forwards in an acquisition. I do not know what would not, frankly. We rejected a $ 33 per share. "

Ballmer may be using their public comments to the unit below the value of Yahoo shares before making another offer? Or are stating their beliefs on concrete question and is only interested in "a kind of partnership based on research?" Only time will tell, but certainly it appears that Microsoft moving forward with new strategies to challenge Google.

Microsoft is moving

Several of these strategies include new or expanded partnerships. A long association, is longtime partner of Microsoft Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, which will be installed Live Search Toolbar in all HP in North America since January 2009.

Microsoft is also negotiating with Verizon to become the search engine default on cell phones of the company, according to the Wall Street Journal. Although the terms of agreement are still under discussion, Early indications are that the two companies will share advertising revenue generated by research done on the mobile Web phones Verizon.

Yahoo! future of

What Yahoo! do to ensure its future as a real Internet viable in the future? Well, it's a change of direction. In mid-November, Yang said Yahoo would return to his post of chief Yahoo! soon as the company has found a new CEO. In addition, in recent months, Yahoo has launched a series of initiatives, the release of its analysis software own (similar to Google Analytics) updated the design of Yahoo News, the launch of APT (formerly AMP!) platform digital advertising, and announce the Yahoo! Open Strategy, which aims to programs Yahoo to open source.

While the change of direction and these efforts not appear in the right direction, we Yahoo! choose a new president who brings new ideas to the strategic table and society need to develop significant technological innovations of proprietary research to convince users to come back to Yahoo to search the web. Yahoo! probably need partners in this effort to change that. Microsoft is open to a partnership and the combination of the search algorithm, mail and instant messaging research efforts would save the companies huge sums of money. This association could also Yahoo! default search provider in Internet Explorer, Office and other Microsoft software products and Web properties. Whichever course you choose Yahoo!, hopefully not too little, too later.

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About the Author

Brian Cooper is the director of online public relations at Medium Blue, where he promotes the company’s clients on the Internet. He has a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a MBA in management from Georgia State University where he graduated summa cum laude.

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