Yahoo exploring alliance with News Corp?

[techs]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/microsoft_yahoo

Yahoo exploring alliance with News Corp.

Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible partnership with News Corp. in its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp. or prod its unsolicited suitor into raising its current takeover bid, according to a person familiar with the talks.

The specifics of the joint venture still hadn't been worked out, said the person who didn't want to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Both The Wall Street Journal and a prominent blog, TechCrunch, reported that News Corp. is interested in folding its popular online social network, MySpace.com, and other Internet assets into Yahoo ? an idea that first came up last year. News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.

News Corp. and a private equity firm also would buy significant stakes in Yahoo in a complex deal designed to boost the Sunnyvale-based company's market value above Microsoft's initial bid of $44.6 billion, or $31 per share.

A Yahoo spokesman said the company continues to "carefully and thoroughly" evaluate alternatives that will enrich its long-term shareholders.

News Corp. spokeswoman Teri Everett declined to comment


Well, I will have to change my home page!!!

 

[Robor]

Ugh... I like my Yahoo mail account but I HATEHATEHATE everything about MySpace. In short. Barf...

 

[Arkaign]

It's just posturing and puffery in the end. If Microsoft wants Yahoo, they'll probably willingly pay upwards of ~$70-80 billion for it. Web-based OS is a potential threat that Microsoft wants to stay on top of, and a Y!OS by Microsoft would keep the Googles of the world from coming at their dominance from any other angle.

 

[FoBoT]

i thought yahoo was that chocolate drink

 

[NoStateofMind]

Murdoch is a bitch, and I would tell him to his face too!!


















As long as I was in a bullet proof car and he and his minions were tied naked to a tree.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i thought yahoo was that chocolate drink

Yoo-Hoo rocks! Love the stuff but don't drink it much. It's loaded with calories and goes down WAY too easy.

 

[ProfJohn]

What is the liberal obsession with News Corp?

As if every other news company out there is totally devoid of any political view or slant. :roll:

 

[Pabster]

Techs is just trying to get the news off Hillary. :laugh:

 

[nonameo]

Originally posted by: ProfJohn
What is the liberal obsession with News Corp?

As if every other news company out there is totally devoid of any political view or slant. :roll:

At least the others try to hide it.

Newscorp doesn't try to hide it, they just deny it.

 

[kage69]

What is the liberal obsession with News Corp?

It's kinda like the conservatives with George Soros, only valid.

As if every other news company out there is totally devoid of any political view or slant.

No one is implying that. What is it with the conservative inability to address real criticisms?