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Could Microsoft's Purchase of Yahoo! Give Google A Run for Their Money?
Feb 1, 2008 by Natalie
News outlets everywhere are buzzing with the unsolicited $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo! stock Microsoft waged on February 1, 2008. Called "the next major milestone" for Microsoft by it's chief executive Steve Ballmer, the deal would pay Yahoo shareholders $31 a share, which represents a 62% premium from where Yahoo stock closed on Thursday. According ...