Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Steve Ballmer reiterated his disinterest for Yahoo, but ..

Following the announcement of the resignation of Yang, patron co-founder of Yahoo, Steve Ballmer concludes, in its way, the rumors about the possible resumption of discussions between the companies.

Microsoft is more interested "in buying all of Yahoo," reaffirmed its CEO. This statement was made immediately plunge the stock exchange 19% of the Yahoo.
However, in parallel, it has supported from shareholders that the company would be "very open" to cooperation on research on the Internet ...
"Let us be clear" Ballmer continued during the general assembly of shareholders of Microsoft. "We have finished with discussions on a purchase of Yahoo."

Recall that the giant search engine has rejected a hostile takeover bid proposed by Microsoft several months ago - creating a highly volatile with Yahoo, until the departure of its founding president, three days ago.

Microsot was ready to 47.5 billion dollars. Yahoo has refused so far to sell its own research activities on the Internet.

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