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Microsoft Will End Up Buying Yahoo Anyway
Who else will write a check for Yahoo! for that amount? Larry Ellison? 'No.' IBM? 'No.' Google is not even in the picture
By: James Hamilton
May. 8, 2008 12:15 PM
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Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo received stupid advice from their investment bank advisers and blew their chance to close the deal with Microsoft as of this Sunday morning. Neither Yang nor Filo are experts on how to sell a company in a multi-billion dollar deal. They have relied on their investment bankers and advisers since the negotiations started Having said that, the winner in the stalled negotiations on Sunday morning was clearly Microsoft. Monday morning Yahoo! shares will tank. After many torturous and painful days, Yang will call Ballmer with his tail between his legs, and we will hear the news that Microsoft is acquiring Yahoo! at $34 per share. This will probably take less than a few weeks, maybe a month. Why? Who else will write a check for Yahoo! for that amount? Larry Ellison? No. IBM? No. Google is not even in the picture. So that's the news this Sunday morning.
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with Microsoft. The difference between the offered price of $33 and the asking price of $40 per share is roughly $1.4b per share, so it 's not small potatoes.
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
