Archive for Tag: Quoted

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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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted discussing Google’s bid to derail a Yahoo deal by Janet Whitman for Canada.com. NEW YORK, NY (February 5th 2008) – In a bid to preserve its dominance on the Web, Google Inc. is seeking to derail Microsoft Corp.’s plan to gobble up Yahoo Inc. Since learning of Microsoft’s $44.6–billion US unsolicited bid on Friday, Google has gone on the offensive, saying the merger would threaten Web innovation and competition. At the same time, behind the scenes, the Internet giant is said to reaching out to rivals who may be interested in putting…

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Today our managing partner, Ken Marlin, was quoted in a discussion of News Corp’s bid for Dow Jones by Steve Rosenbush for Business Week. News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has a reputation as one of the corporate world’s savviest dealmakers, thanks in part to his $580 million acquisition of Internet powerhouse MySpace. Now Murdoch is back, with a bigger and possibly even bolder proposal: a $5 billion offer for Dow Jones, publisher of a blue chip business news empire that includes The Wall Street Journal. Murdoch offered an eye–popping 65% premium for the company, which has been struggling, as have…

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