{"id":482,"date":"2008-04-09T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/yahoo-rejects-three-week-deadline-of-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T02:40:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:40:07","slug":"yahoo-rejects-three-week-deadline-of-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/yahoo-rejects-three-week-deadline-of-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo rejects three-week deadline of Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders,&#8221; Yahoo&#8217;s board chairman Roy Bostock and chief executive Jerry Yang said in a letter to CEO of Microsoft Corporation Steve Ballmer. &#8220;We are open to all alternatives that maximize stockholder value. To be clear, this includes a transaction with Microsoft if it represents a price that fully recognizes the value of Yahoo on a standalone basis,&#8221; the Yahoo letter said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter came in reply to a challenge issued by Microsoft on Saturday for the Internet giant to agree to its 44.6 billion dollar capture offer in three weeks or face a shareholder proxy fight. Analysts said the conflict of the technology giants appeared to be escalating.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo has rejected a three-week deadline offered by Microsoft to agree to a 44.6 billion dollar capture, as the fight between the two giant technologies titans heated up. Yahoo anyhow stated on Monday it was open to a sweet bid from the software giant or another bidder also. &#8220;We continue to believe that your proposal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}