{"id":512,"date":"2008-05-22T00:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T04:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/microsoft-still-has-an-eye-on-yahoo\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T01:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T05:16:19","slug":"microsoft-still-has-an-eye-on-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/microsoft-still-has-an-eye-on-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Still has an Eye on Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Microsoft may not look to bid for acquiring Yahoo but now it would be other type deal with No 2 Search engine \u2013 Steve Ballmer stated yesterday. &#8220;We are not bidding to buy Yahoo,&#8221; Ballmer said at the inauguration of Microsoft&#8217;s new research and development centre in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create value, but not a whole acquisition of the company,&#8221; he said without elaborating further. Earlier this month, Microsoft moved away from the offer to obtain Yahoo for $47.5 billion (24.16 billion pounds), or $33 per share, after Yahoo rejected the offer, saying it would only resolve for $37 a share.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is now planning to make an alternative offer, proposing to purchase Yahoo&#8217;s search business and take a marginal stake in the Web firm, a person well-known with the discussions told Reuters this week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft may not look to bid for acquiring Yahoo but now it would be other type deal with No 2 Search engine \u2013 Steve Ballmer stated yesterday. &#8220;We are not bidding to buy Yahoo,&#8221; Ballmer said at the inauguration of Microsoft&#8217;s new research and development centre in Israel. &#8220;Yet, we are trying to have discussions [&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-512","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\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}