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Microsoft's Yahoo deal appears more likely to happen
REJECTION COULD SPUR 'LITANY OF LAWSUITS'
By Elise Ackerman and Pete Carey
Mercury News
Article Launched: 02/12/2008 01:46:45 AM PST
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo
took on the air of inevitability Monday, even as the Sunnyvale search
firm's board of directors officially rejected the offer.
That decision, first
reported during the weekend, was widely viewed on Wall Street as
an effort to get Microsoft to raise its $44.6 billion, or $31 a
share, proposal - or at the very least give Yahoo time to look at
other options. Yahoo's stock rose 2 percent in regular trading to
close at $29.87, up 67 cents.
"It's good negotiating
tactics to try to get a higher price from Microsoft," said
Laura Martin of Soleil Securities Group. "But if they really
reject the offer, they are going to have a litany of shareholder
lawsuits. It's clear there are no other bidders for anything close
to this price."
In the coming weeks,
Microsoft will try to raise the pressure on Yahoo. It has indicated
it is prepared for a nasty takeover battle that could include nominating
its own slate to Yahoo's board of directors or making its offer
directly to Yahoo's shareholders. Read
more here.
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In the last few hours
two associates both pointed me to David Beisel’s post on Vertical
Social Networks. Based on my previous post, obviously I agree with
David that we’ll start to see niche or vertical social networks.
I wanted to address David’s question about the monetization
of these vertical social networks:
So the more niche and
limited audience a given subject area, the less able the network
is able to take advantage of this exponential effect. But I’ve
also argued that in the long run, the value of the network is not
only determined by the number of nodes in it, but in the ability
for the network to monetize those nodes. The question then is that
if there’s a greater ability to monetize niche subject areas
than more general ones because of the passion and interest-level
involved in some of them. The answer is probably that it varies
from vertical to vertical, subject to subject.
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