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Microsoft and Yahoo’s shotgun marriage
From the BBC Website
Jerry Yang’s and Bill Gates’ legacies are at stak
Is this Bill Gates’ last big throw?
Microsoft’s proposal to buy internet veteran Yahoo for a whopping $44.6bn (£22.4bn) certainly grabs the […]After the $580 million sale of MySpace to Murdoch’s NewsCorp, and around the time of the $1.76 billion sale of YouTube to Google, Facebook came up on the chopping block. Yahoo moved aggressively and bid $2 billion; then the 22 year-old CEO and founder of Facebook shocked the world and said, “no thanks.” What is […]
When you hear about companies being sold for millions (sometimes billions) of dollars, an image of a suitcase bursting full of money may come to mind, or even a bank statement that has 7 figures on it. This is unfortunately not the case- the buyout is generally done as a stock deal, where the purchasing […]