14 Nov 2008
Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, has rejected speculation that the company would
25 Jul 2008
Carl Icahn, who owns 5 per cent of Yahoo! and has demanded the company accept Microsoft's takeover...As part of the peace deal, Yahoo!'s board will expand from nine
directors to 11 and include two of Icahn's supporters. Icahn will
replace Robert Kotick, the current director, and has now toned down his
calls for Yahoo! to sell all or part of the business to Microsoft. ...
18 Jul 2008
Yahoo! has rejected a joint proposal for its search business by Microsoft and Carl Icahn.
11 Jul 2008
!'s board with executives in favour of a sale to Microsoft, may be offered a seat on the board he...Yahoo! is considering offering him two seats, but the 5 per
cent shareholder is thought to be seeking no fewer than four seats, to
regain the control needed to re-establish talks with Microsoft. ...
20 Jun 2008
move designed to sound the death knell for any takeover of Yahoo! by Microsoft....The agreement will enable Yahoo! to run ads supplied by Google alongside
its own search results and on some of its websites in the US and Canada.
Microsoft dropped its $44.6 billion (£22.6 billion) bid
last month, but the Yahoo! chief executive, Jerry Yang, has since come
under increasing pressure from ...
13 Jun 2008
In a letter to Yahoo!, Icahn alleged that Yahoo! "sabotaged" Microsoft's
initial $33-a-share offer for the company. The Yahoo! chairman,
Roy Bostock, hit back at Icahn for "manipulating facts", and asked
shareholders to reject his proposals and vote to reinstate the current
board. ...
30 May 2008
Icahn opposes Yahoo!'s rejection of a £22.6 billion bid from
Microsoft. Yahoo! postponed the meeting, scheduled for 3 July, to an
unspecified date towards the end of that month. ...
23 May 2008
Microsoft and Yahoo! have re-entered talks, this time about a tie-up likely to involve the two
09 May 2008
Microsoft has withdrawn its $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo! after the two failed to agree a...Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, wrote to the Yahoo! chief
executive, Jerry Yang, to inform him of the decision, which followed
speculation last week that the two companies might re ...
they were valued at when
Microsoft made the original bid. ...
02 May 2008
Microsoft has reportedly re-opened talks with Yahoo! after the deadline it imposed on the search