February 1, 2008

The news is not new, in fact, already there were rumors a few years ago, but this time it has been confirmed:

Microsoft has launched a takeover of Yahoo! by the company of Bill Gates offers a $ 31 a share for Yahoo! , which involves an expenditure of approximately eye to the figure: 44,600 million ($ 44.6 billion) (More € 30,000 million) in cash or in shares of the company.

Why has not. Well maybe because Yahoo! despite being one of the biggest on the Internet, far from Microsoft and Google, though, is going through a bad time, as their actions when they launched the takeover bid was not going through its best experiencing a sharp drop .

In fact, the price of $ 31 per share accounted for approximately 60% of its stock price the day before the takeover.

To this we must add the imminent decision by Yahoo! to discard about 20% of its workforce, which amounts to more than 2,000 employees worldwide, so that by the takeover bid, Microsoft also help alleviate this crisis, as Microsoft intended to include employees of both companies, especially encouraging the retention of Yahoo! engineers and managers.

The reason of this operation?, Well according to Microsoft is creating a company globally competitive and higher value for shareholders, among other things, but make no mistake, the rationale for a transaction of this magnitude is: Google .

And this union is that, if now might be said that the online advertising industry and is monopolized by the search engines Google, with this acquisition, we might be talking about a duopoly, in which Microsoft would seek to gain ground on Google.

Here you can get more information. and the letter that Steve Ballmer sent to Yahoo's Board of Directors.

There will be attentive to the evolution of this great operation, and certainly it will not be at all easy to Microsoft, no longer in that they can perform or not to buy Yahoo!, but in the integration of both companies and the ability to keep users of Yahoo!, because do not forget that Microsoft and Yahoo! share many identical or similar services (mail, browser, etc.), or that Yahoo! has other great services such as Flickr, where users do not share the same idea of relying on Microsoft ......, , So the first step has been taken, we will see how this evolves, because surely the reactions to all this and more, will soon arrive.

Be happy

Photo courtesy of Miguel Daza taken from Herald Aragon.

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13 Comments

manolito February 1, 2008 at 18:22
You can not imagine how little I care haha.
Augustine February 1, 2008 at 19:04
Not the first time Microsoft shows clearly its intentions alquirir Yahoo!, the last was more or less a year ... but I do not know what strange reason, it seems that this is serious.
It is of course the news of the day ... we must be attentive to their development.
Ruben February 1, 2008 at 20:18
Manolito said:
You can not imagine how little I care haha.
Always the diplomat
Miguel Daza February 1, 2008 at 23:02
Opa, I Yahoo! Groups via a takeover bid. I heard something on TV, but do not think we affect citizens on foot. I thought that Microsoft was quite competitive (monopolistic), but if Google wants to win leads to clear, I have never used Yahoo to find anything. Google is God and nobody can beat him never, unless Yahoo (once acquired by Microsoft if need be) to become a Google improved, sure thing that will not happen.
manolito February 2, 2008 at 10:32
"Google is God and nobody can beat him never, unless Yahoo (once acquired by Microsoft if need be) to become a Google improved, something certainly not occur" Miguel Daza, seasoned analyst and inveterate thinker.
Blaxter February 2, 2008 at 13:04
@ MiguelDaza, and flickr or delicious? To say that yahoo mail is really good.
I hope you do not buy it, it would be really bad for many fields (such as "web 2.0" or software development)
Miguel Daza February 3, 2008 at 11:08
Well, Flickr, not bad, but it fails so much paraphernalia when a picture and is quite slow, and delicious to those who use it do not deny that is useful. Yahoo Mail truth is that I have as a second son, just use it.
Dorian February 4, 2008 at 11:22
@ Blaxter: why is it bad?
Puto February 4, 2008 at 13:08
I feel the same as Manolito.
My only interest is to look online e-haha.
Dorian February 4, 2008 at 15:41
Google offers an alliance with Yahoo to deal with Microsoft
Blaxter February 11, 2008 at 23:08
@ Michael, that Flickr is not bad? WTF? Manolito say it would accept, but tell someone you love photography disturbs me.
@ Dorian, would be a catastrophe because, for example, would withdraw all support for yahoo free software, which is something (for example the well known and used YUI). And because cagarían all services (flickr, delicious to name two) and trying to integrate their technologies migrandolos (LAMPP to dot net).
Javier Gutierrez February 20, 2008 at 19:38
Since I'm walking in your blog, remember that a billion is a trillion in our culture, not billion. The issue has received an item: Click here to see the Wikipedia article
Ruben February 20, 2008 at 20:09
@ Javier: mm, because I've always interpreted as American culture by writing, Honestly it seems more practical and useful to talk about a million million. Although after seeing the article, it is true that caution must be taken with this issue when reading articles in English, as is the case, but being original English article, the amount itself is well placed , did I not.
PS: I've changed the link, because it came out correctly.