Filed under: Deals, Engagements
It’s been fairly quiet on the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)-Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) front, even too quiet for some who speculate the silence could mean the two sides are talking. We still see the possibility of Jerry Yang making one last-gasp effort to float an alternative to a deal with Microsoft, but remain in the camp that a deal gets done because there truly aren’t any superior alternatives out there, and in situations like this, the pursuer typically gets the target.
But it’s still unclear how exactly the two sides eventually will come together and at what price. There’s the camp that feels Microsoft does not need to bid against itself and raise its $31 a share offer price, while others see plenty of wiggle-room for Microsoft to do just that, particularly so it can get the deal done sooner rather than later. Microsoft could also go hostile and attempt to take over Yahoo!’s board, though they might be having trouble finding people willing to get in the middle of things.
Continue reading at TechConfidential.com.
Entries (RSS)