Guest X-Fusion Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion. The offer is 62 percent above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. "We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer of Microsoft. "Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building compelling, high-scale services and infrastructure," said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft. The bid comes hours after Yahoo announced that Terry Semel was stepping down as non-executive chairman, six months after handing over his CEO title to Jerry Yang. Semel is leaving the board effective immediately, Yahoo announced yesterday. He will be replaced as non-executive chairman by another board member, Roy Bostock, the company said. Semel was chairman and CEO of Yahoo for six years until he was replaced in a management shuffle last June. Yang, one of Yahoo's co-founders, was made CEO, and Semel was demoted to non-executive chairman. As CEO, Semel helped to build Yahoo's audience from 170 million to more than 500 million users. But he was also blamed for missteps that allowed Google to build a commanding lead in online search and advertising, prompting last year's reorganisation. "With the Company moving forward under new leadership, I believe this is an appropriate time for me to step down from the board," Semel said in the statement. He approached the board several months ago about leaving once a replacement could be found, Yahoo said. Bostock has a long history in the advertising industry, "an area that is more important than ever to Yahoo's business and our long term success," the company said. This week Yahoo reported that net income for its fourth quarter declined to $206 million, from $269 million a year earlier. It also announced plans to lay off about 1,000 staff. Source: Peter Sayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
err0r Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 Quick go spam your chat networks on yahoo chat before msn closes those too lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-Fusion Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 rofl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 I see Bill got something to spend this weeks pocket money on lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancid_ Posted February 1, 2008 Report Share Posted February 1, 2008 oh sh*t have to get the yahoo chat clone ready. Rancid_ : Rolls Eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLia Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 When MSN closed chat, wasn't there a rumour ( not sure now) that it would merge its rooms into Yahoo? Well not merge exactly..I don't remember it well ..... but sth like MSN will start using Yahoo for chat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Yahoo chat service was taken over by someone else im sure, its bugging me cause i cant remember who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnjalph Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Yahoo chat service was taken over by someone else im sure, its bugging me cause i cant remember who. Lycos isnt it? Or atleast I thought it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky Posted February 2, 2008 Report Share Posted February 2, 2008 Lycos...spot on tyvm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rancid_ Posted February 3, 2008 Report Share Posted February 3, 2008 As far as i am aware that was only in the UK spooky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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