Archive for: February 2008

Today our Managing Partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a disucssion of Yahoo’s rehection of Microsoft’s bid for MediaBuyerPlanner. Yahoo’s formal rejection of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid left the door open to give Yahoo management a chance to propose a plan to boost the stock above Microsoft’s bid, to solicit rival offers, and to attempt to raise the offering price from Microsoft, analysts say. Microsoft is not believed to have put its final offer on the table. “What Microsoft wants is someone to sit down and negotiate with them,” Ken Marlin, managing partner of Marlin & Associates, is quoted as…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin was quoted discussing Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Jessica Guynn for The Los Angeles Times. The takeover target says the $44.6–billion unsolicited offer is too low. After being rebuffed by Yahoo Inc. today, Microsoft Corp. fired back by saying it planned to move quickly and by whatever means necessary to clinch the deal to buy the Internet company. It did not elaborate on what steps it planned to take, but called its $44.6–billion offer “full and fair.” Analysts have said Microsoft could sweeten its offer, nominate it own slate of directors to Yahoo’s board…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo by Michael Liedtke for AP News. Yahoo Inc.’s board will reject Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday. The decision could provoke a showdown between two of the world’s most prominent technology companies with Internet search leader Google Inc. looming in the background. Leery of Microsoft expanding its turf on the Internet, Google already has offered to help Yahoo avert a takeover and urged antitrust regulators to…

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