Microsoft, may try to buy advertising business Yahoo
Microsoft Corporation following the denial of Yahoo merger may try to buy the assets of the most promising Internet companies. At least, that such information distributed earlier this week, some online sources.
Microsoft, recall, unsuccessfully tried to buy Yahoo for three months. First, for each share Yahoo Corporation offered 31 dollar, and then raised the price to 33 dollars. The amount of the transaction could reach 47.5 billion dollars, but the Yahoo board of directors considered the price inadequate and refused. As a result, Microsoft has decided to withdraw the proposal to purchase.
The position of the board of directors Yahoo attracted sharp criticism from some shareholders of the company and, in a conflict of interest involved a famous billionaire Carl Ikan. Last week Ikan unveiled a list of candidates who intend to propose replacing the current Board of Directors of Yahoo in the upcoming shareholders' meeting. Meanwhile, last Sunday in Microsoft, without revealing any details, reported that considers alternatives to deal with Yahoo.
As now notes The Wall Street Journal citing knowledgeable sources, Microsoft is negotiating the purchase of business Yahoo, associated with the display of advertisements in search results. Microsoft's offer also includes the purchase of Asian assets and acquisition of Yahoo minority stake to the remaining part of Yahoo. Information circulated magazine The Wall Street Journal, confirms Agency and Reuters.
However, it is not yet clear whether this time the leadership of Yahoo in the proposal Microsoft. After all, in case of sale advertising business Internet company will remain without one of the most profitable and promising units. Rightly or wrongly, but potential participants in the transaction official comments have not yet offer.
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