Re: [Hampshire] Microsoft walks away from Yahoo

Tony Whitmore wrote:
> Andy Random wrote:
>
>> Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer formally withdrew the offer in a
>> letter to Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang.
>>
>> Possibly bad news if you are a Yahoo shareholder, but great news as far
>> as I'm concerned...
>>
>
> Interesting stuff, especially given the very aggressive take-over which
> Ballmer threatened to carry out recently.
>
> Tony
>
>
Yahoo scuppered that by threatening to move ALL their advertising to
Google. Very clever. I think this is not the end and M$ may come up with
the extra $5 billion via other means.