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Yahoo Shareholder Asks Microsoft To Re-Bid At $22
TechCrunch — ... Private equity fund Mithras Capital, which holds 1.9 million shares of Yahoo (about 0.14%), will propose to Microsoft that they buy Yahoo at $22 per share, Reuters reports. Microsoft would then unload Yahoo’s Asian assets adn non-search businesses, take $3 billion worth of cost savings and some tax benefits, and end up with Yahoo’s search business for $10.3 billion. ...

Roundup: IBM see earnings rise, possible MacBook specs, RIM ripe for a takeover and more
VentureBeat — ... more. A new 13-inch MacBook on the Apple invite? — The invitation for Apple’s event to unveil the new MacBooks on Tuesday appears to feature an all-metallic 13-inch notebook — which currently doesn’t exist. MacRumors has more. Investor wants Microsoft to buy Yahoo for $22-a-share — You knew this was coming. As Yahoo’s stock continues to plummet, the wolves are coming out. Consider the dead horse kicked. ...

Yahoo Investor Pushes For a Microhoo at $22 a Share
Wired: Epicenter — Just as Yahoo’s share prices drop below the $13 mark, one of its investors seems to be getting nervous and has proposed that Microsoft buy Yahoo at a 74 percent premium of the current share price. That’s compared to the 62 percent premium initially offered and rejected back in February, so it’s certainly a bold offer for a company who’s shares have recently sunk to levels unseen since 1998. Mithras Capital owns more than 1.9 million shares or 0.14 percent of Yahoo. Under its proposal “Microsoft would unload Yahoo's Asian assets and non-search businesses, extract $3 billion worth of cost savings and receive $2.8 billion of tax ...

Yahoo Investor Shows Big Kahunas - Offers Microsoft its $12 Stock for $22
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... With its partnership with Google destined to be delayed for eternity, some Yahoo investors are hoping Microsoft might be willing to catch a falling knife. Actually, they’re kind of hoping that Microsoft will look past Yahoo’s $12 share price and be generous with a $22 buyout offer. ...

Mithras Capital — Who Are These Yahoos? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... at last? Mithras Capital Partners has floated a proposal that Microsoft buy Yahoo for $22 a share, or 74 percent more than its closing price on Thursday. According to Reuters, Microsoft could then unload Yahoo’s Asian assets and recognize $3 billion in savings, making for a total deal cost of $10.3 billion. ...

I Bet $31-Per-Share Sounds Pretty Good Right About Now, Eh?
Digital Daily — Now that shares of Yahoo (YHOO) have dipped below $13 for the first time in more than five years. And the company’s proposed advertising partnership with Google (GOOG) has been delayed due to the Justice Department’s ongoing related antitrust review. And its lucrative stakes in two Asian Internet firms — Alibaba.com and Gmarket — have lost 22 percent of their value, or $2.1 billion, since Yahoo assessed them in July. And its quarterly profit and sales are expected to fall short of consensus estimates because of what CEO Jerry Yang likes to call headwinds. Now that Yahoo is trading $12.63 in an ...

Microsoft Looking Better To Yahoo Investors
WebProNews Feed — ... canceled the whole thing. Not without some drama from Daddy Icahn, who was poised to stage a shotgun wedding until Yahoo somehow sweet-talked him out of it. Yang and Bostock would live to see another day of independence. But this this just makes them look like fools. It s $12.45 currently. Microsoft s offer made it $33 just eight months ago. It s no surprise Yahoo investors are already sweet-talking another Microsoft courtship. Mithras Investment fund, a small Yahoo stakeholder proposed a new deal yesterday as Yahoo stock crashed, offering up ...

Yahoo shareholder wants Microsoft to buy at $22 a share; is RIM on the shopping list, too?
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — ... Mithras Capital, which owns 0.14 percent of Yahoo, has floated a proposal for Microsoft to buy the floundering Internet giant for $22 a share, according to reports from Reuters and Bloomberg. That would be a 74 percent premium to Yahoo's Thursday closing price of $12.65, but still significantly below the $31-a-share stock and cash offer Microsoft made for the company Feb. 1. ...

Yahoo Hoping For $22/Share Buyout From Microsoft
WebProNews Feed — [image] There s no doubt that the current economic meltdown is hurting a lot of businesses. At the sharp end of the Wall Street collapse is Yahoo its stock is down 34% since the beginning of August. With its partnership with Google destined to be delayed for eternity, some Yahoo investors are hoping Microsoft might be willing to catch a falling knife. Actually, they re kind of hoping that Microsoft will look past Yahoo s $12 share price and be generous with a $22 buyout offer . A small Yahoo Inc investor proposed a new deal on Thursday to sell the company to Microsoft Corp for ...