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MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom
mathewingram.com/work —
... convoluted deal to proceed with what amounts to a creeping takeover of Yahoo (Update: Kara says that sources tell her it is “total fiction”). According to the report, the deal would involve Ross Levinsohn (formerly of Fox Interactive Media) and Jonathan Miller (formerly of Yahoo) raising $5-billion and Microsoft putting in another $5-billion, and the two groups acquiring a 30-per-cent stake in the troubled Web giant, which Levinsohn and Miller would run. Microsoft would manage the search business and would have a call option on buying the whole ...
Is it On again? Times of London reporting $20B MSFT-YHOO deal
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... UPDATE: Kara Swisher at The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is calling this "total fiction", pointing out that Yahoo's entire market cap is $16b. Well it's nice to get a little MSFT-YHOO news on a weekend again, anyway. ...
Did Microsoft (MSFT) just cut deal to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) search?
BloggingStocks —
... Contrast that to the US technology website's take. 'A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, is--in the words of one key player--"total fiction." ' ...
Microsoft-Yahoo $20 Billion Search Deal Hogwash - Levinsohn
Silicon Alley Insider —
... would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo's 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating agreement to manage the search business. It would also receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services.
It is expected that the operating agreement would boost Yahoo's income by as much as $2 billion per annum.
And now Kara Swisher's debunking:
A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy ...
Another Day Another Yahoo Rumor [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , but as we have seen time and again, trying to buy share in search is a failing strategy. With little or no sources, I find this story as unreliable as a piece of swiss cheese left for too long in the pantry. Levinsohn who described Times story as “total fiction” seems to agree. What are your thoughts? ...
Revived Yahoo search deal for Microsoft are “total fiction” for the time being
Boy Genius Report —
As much sense as it would make for Microsoft and Yahoo to come back to the table now that Jerry Yang is out of the way, yesterday’s rush of news may have been a bit premature - if not simply a case of rumor mongering. A report in today’s Times of London, published online last night, goes into great detail with regards to negotiations that are currently taking place for Yahoo’s search business. The article states Microsoft has put $20 billion on the table and covers intimate details of the pending deal with great detail. The problem, allegedly, is ...
Revived Yahoo search deal for Microsoft is “total fiction” for the time being
Boy Genius Report —
As much sense as it would make for Microsoft and Yahoo to come back to the table now that Jerry Yang is out of the way, yesterday’s rush of news may have been a bit premature - if not simply a case of rumor mongering. A report in today’s Times of London, published online last night, goes into great detail with regards to negotiations that are currently taking place for Yahoo’s search business. The article states Microsoft has put $20 billion on the table and covers intimate details of the pending deal with great detail. The problem, allegedly, is ...
More Microsoft Yahoo Gossip
WebProNews Feed —
... , which reports that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's search business for $20 billion. Unsurprisingly, this report has been yet again shot down. BoomTown (of the Wall Street Journal network) writer Kara Swisher dismisses it as "total fiction" after BoomTown spoke with "top sources" at both Yahoo and Microsoft" who deny that any such talks have been happening. That doesn't mean that they won't though. Despite the constant back and forth of whether or not the two companies are going to make a deal or no deal, there's no denying that the concept makes a lot of sense ...
Sunday Times story on Microsoft/Yahoo deal is 'total fiction' says All Things Digital
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... has been rubbished by Kara Swisher at the Murdoch-owned All Things Digital blog, which is an offshoot of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. ...
Yahoo In Search Deal With MSFT? Apparently Not.
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... search business. Kara, of AllThingsD.com, wrote a post in response that says the Times story is “total fiction” and that there is no such deal. Let’s review the key points of each piece. ...
Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential ‘Kumo’ search brand
All about Microsoft —
... After a weekend of “it’s on-again/no it’s not” rumors regarding Microsoft doing some kind of search deal with Yahoo, it’s worth noting the Redmondians are still pushing ahead with their plan to rebrand Live Search as “Kumo.” ...
Around the Web 12.1.08: Microhoo talks denied, Midway stake sold, Mapple mocked on 'The Simpsons'
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... are using video games to evaluate basketball talent, running virtual players through different offensive sets and see how his virtual teammates react. LAT
-- Sumner Redstone finally unloaded Midway Games, selling his company's 87% stake in the trouble publisher to a private investor at a heavy loss. WSJ
-- The Times of London story about an alleged $20-billion Yahoo-Microsoft deal is "total fiction." BoomTown
-- When you ruin journalists' Saturday on a holiday weekend with an apparently ...
Disputed Report Says Microsoft To Acquire Yahoo’s Search Business—Any Truth To It?
Xconomy —
... as saying “No truth to it. News to us.” The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog said that Levinsohn denied the report as “total fiction.” Reporters and analysts have also noted that Yahoo’s total market cap is only $16 billion, so the reported $20 billion price tag doesn’t add up. Meanwhile, neither Microsoft nor Yahoo are commenting. ...
Why Carl Icahn Didn't Buy Enough Yahoo!
Forbes.com: Technology News —
... ), however, remains a cash-spewing machine. So when corporate raider and Yahoo! board member Carl Icahn doubled down on Yahoo! in a Thanksgiving-week frenzy, after watching his previous investment lose $1 billion since buying 69 million shares of Yahoo! for $25 a share early this year, the question shouldn't be "Is he crazy?" The right question is: Has Icahn lost his nerve? That's because Yahoo is overdue for a trip to the corporate chop shop. And while All Things Digital's Kara Swisher debunked a ...
Microsoft puts more muscle behind its potential ‘Kumo’ search brand
Bink.nu —
After a weekend of “it’s on-again/no it’s not” rumors regarding Microsoft doing some kind of search deal with Yahoo, it’s worth noting the Redmondians are still pushing ahead with their plan to rebrand Live Search as “Kumo.” ...
Corporate Wolves Circle Yahoo's Goose
WebProNews Feed —
... was reporting ex-chairman and CEO of AOL Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, former president of MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media, were selected to lead the new management team as Yahoo and Microsoft reenter discussions, this time with only the search business on the table. The rumored asking price for Yahoo s search business: $20 billion. Levinsohn has since told Kara Swisher that the report was total fiction , and Swisher notes Yahoo s current entire market cap is just $16 billion. Since Levinsohn s denial new reports have emerged that Levinsohn, Miller, and News ...
Talks of a Yahoo takeover seem, shall we say, greatly exaggerated
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... published a widely debunked story about a $20-billion Microsoft search deal that had Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, both of venture capital firm Velocity Interactive Group, taking the reins of the struggling Internet giant. ...
