{"id":500,"date":"2008-05-05T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/microsoft-might-look-for-alternate-deal\/"},"modified":"2012-09-08T02:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:27:52","slug":"microsoft-might-look-for-alternate-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/microsoft-might-look-for-alternate-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft might look for alternate deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\">Microsoft Corp might now look for a mixture of deals after moving away from Yahoo Inc, but some would be complete enough to let it confront Google Inc&#8217;s power of online advertising. When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called off talks with Yahoo on Saturday soon after the Web Company discarded his $47.5 billion offer, he gave up what he and his investors saw as the best method to grow rapidly in marketing and online services to take on market head Google.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\"><o:p><\/o:p>&#8220;Ultimately, our goal is to build the industry-leading business in search, online advertising, media, and social networking,&#8221; Ballmer wrote in a Saturday letter to employees, obtained by Reuters. &#8220;Although the acquisition of Yahoo would have accelerated our ability to deliver on our strategy in advertising and online services, I remain confident that we can achieve our goals without Yahoo,&#8221; Ballmer wrote.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: Verdana;\"><o:p><\/o:p>Ballmer said Microsoft might go it unaided, but a likelier situation would be to use some of the hard cash it hanged in front of Yahoo to make lesser acquisitions or strike up partnerships.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Corp might now look for a mixture of deals after moving away from Yahoo Inc, but some would be complete enough to let it confront Google Inc&#8217;s power of online advertising. When Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called off talks with Yahoo on Saturday soon after the Web Company discarded his $47.5 billion offer, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}