Archive for April, 2008
"No Comments" – Microsoft and Yahoo said after the meet
Microsoft, however, is increasingly getting irritated with Yahoo’s refusal to get in into negotiations, the person stated. But Microsoft is not taking into account to lower its offer or moving back it all together, the person added. Earlier media study suggesting that Microsoft is re-appraising its offer sent to Yahoo shares down about 5 percent in after-hours of trading.
“Microsoft has tried again and again to engage in substantive negotiations, but the board has simply refused,” the person said. “Since the offer was made, the market has deteriorated and there are numerous indications that Yahoo’s business has declined.”
Meet between Microsoft and Yahoo
The Microsoft executives had no interest to increase their cash-and-stock offer, and the Yahoo camp went on to say no to enter formal negotiations without a sickly bid, people known with the matter say. Yahoo’s board discarded Microsoft’s original bid in February, and Yahoo’s senior executive might see no point in investment talks on the basis of that offer.
Microsoft’s cash-and0stock offer was designated at $44.6 billion during Jan. 31, but a drop in the software maker’s share price has decreased the value to about $42 billion, or $29.29 a share. On Thursday, Yahoo shares traded at $28.13 at 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Exchange composite trading.
Microsoft does not augment its initial offer for Yahoo
On January 31, Microsoft had offered Yahoo $31 a share for its industry, or about $44.6 billion at the time and that Yahoo stated “considerably undervalued” the company. However, as that preliminary offer was joined in part to Microsoft’s stock price, and Microsoft’s stock price had been refused over the last two months, the offer now is worth just about $29 per share, or a couple of billion dollars less, give or take. Lets wait and watch what yahoo decides!
Google announced Custom time email
The mark comes also with some limitations. Emails could be retrograded prior to April 1, 2004, the date Google started Gmail. Said Google in the statement: “If we were to let you send an email from Gmail before Gmail existed, well, that would be like hanging out with your parents before you were born – crazy talk.”
Google is further limiting the use of this feature to only 10 times a year to avoid others from losing “faith in the accuracy of time.” Or, for that matter, faith in announcements made on the first day of April.
Yahoo Launches Shine for Women
Yahoo Inc. has recently launched Yahoo Shine, which is a new appeal to a key demographic; women. It is a Web site that aims at females between the ages of 25 and 54. It would look into into fashion and loveliness, activity, parenting, work and lot other areas of interest pertaining to women. You can check out Yahoo Shine at http://shine.yahoo.com/
“Shine is going to be a magnet for women looking to come to one place to get the best information built for women,” she said. Women form a pleasing audience for online marketers, partly, because they outnumber men. There are 81 million U.S. women aged 18 and elder on the Internet when compared with 77.8 million men, according to study company EMarketer Inc.







