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Will Microsoft be brave this time and follow through with a new bid for Yahoo?

Will Microsoft be brave this time and follow through with a new bid for Yahoo?

By Stephen Foster on November 28, 2011

Back in 2008 Microsoft bid $33 a share for Yahoo (about twice its current worth) but the bid fell fell through because (a) Yahoo founder Jerry Yang held out for even more money or (b) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) got cold feet and used them to walk away from the deal at the last [...]

Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News | Tagged alibaba, apple, Carol Bartz, Carolyn Everson, China, facebook, google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, msn, nokia, skype, softbank, Steve Ballmer, Windows, yahoo, yahoo japan

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