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Microsoft May Shatter the Silence Today, Wall St. Journal Predicts
May be about to nominate a proxy slate of directors
By: Maureen O'Gara
Apr. 30, 2008 04:45 PM
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At least that approach was under consideration, it heard. The paper said it could change. There have been no formal negotiations between the two companies since Microsoft issued its ultimatum three weeks ago and the New York Times says Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith told a conference in Redmond that no meetings were scheduled. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said last Wednesday that Microsoft could simply walk away and Thursday CFO Chris Liddell reiterated Ballmer’s premise that Microsoft’s offer was more than fair. Yahoo! of course wants more than $31 a share, and as simply everyone has observed by now Microsoft’s half stock, half cash offer ain’t what it was when Microsoft made it. Microsoft has to remove the Yahoo! board to crush its poison pill defense and would need to float its slate of directors 10 days after Yahoo! sets the date for its annual meeting, which has to be held by July. Meanwhile, the Journal reports, citing a shareholder suit against Yahoo! for ignoring Microsoft’s bid that Microsoft told Yahoo! it would spend $1.5 billion on retaining Yahoo!’s people.
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The Wall Street Journal thinks that Microsoft is about to break the break the deafening silence that has hung in the air since Yahoo! ignored Microsoft’s Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by force at a lower price. The Journal thinks that Microsoft could nominate a proxy slate of directors to replace Yahoo!’s board but hold off on going directly to Yahoo!’s shareholders and say nothing about the price, a move that could let its shares recover from their 12% decline since Microsoft went public with its Yahoo! lust.
Google has taken its
Postini investment and
turned out Google Web
Security for the
Enterprise, which is
supposed to protect
against spyware, viruses
and zero-hour threats in
real-time whether the
user is on the corporate
network or working
remotely like at a hotel
or in an airport. If 
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
targeted adv
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support.
Apparentl 
Yahoo's stock dropped
roughly 19%-20% this
morning at the open,
shaving $8.7 billion off
its value, its first
installment on the price
of its independence from
Microsoft. Yahoo, whose
position improved a
couple of percentage
points in the first
half-hour of trading, is
being held up by
