{"id":935,"date":"2008-02-10T13:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-google-wins\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T13:21:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T18:21:37","slug":"yahoo-rejects-microsoft-google-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-google-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Google Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll see books&nbsp; written about this epic battle of&nbsp; the&nbsp; 3 tech behemoths &#8211; Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.&nbsp; Another chapter was written this morning as Yahoo defiantly rejected Microsoft&#8217;s bid indicating it &quot;massively undervalued&quot; the company and that the company isn&#8217;t likely to consider an offer below 40.&nbsp; There has been talk of Yahoo partnering with Google and using their advertising platform but I don&#8217;t see how they&#8217;re going to get around the regulators on that one.&nbsp; Google CEO Eric Schmidt whined about a Yahoo\/Microsoft merge as monopolistic&#8230; I&#8217;d have to say Yahoo + Google in any capacity is more so.&nbsp; Sure Yahoo retains its pride with this rejection and stirs some excitement amongst employees in their battle with the much hated Microsoft, but is it a good business decision?&nbsp; Time will tell, but I don&#8217;t think Yahoo is in any position to playing chicken with Ballmer.&nbsp; A couple things are certain though.&nbsp; This fight just got a whole lot more interesting and whichever way this plays out Google benefits big time.&nbsp; Long Google and looking to get longer.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Times has a good rundown of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com\/microsoft\/archives\/131501.asp\">what might happen next.<\/a> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/urchin.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n_uacct = \"UA-419633-5\";\nurchinTracker();\n<\/script> <!--HitTail Code--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/19967.hittail.com\/mlt.js\"><\/script> <!--End HitTail Code--> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/wp-includes\/js\/prototype.js\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/share-this\/share-this.php?akst_action=js\"><\/script> <noscript><\/noscript>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sphere.com\/widgets\/sphereit\/js?siteid=wordpressorg\"><\/script>  <script text=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/themes\/semiologic\/ibox.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>        <script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/mint\/?record&amp;key=3736417950566936333662363175535246656a5a7852303231&amp;referer=http%3A\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/category\/company-earnings\/&amp;resource=http%3A\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/salesforcecom-crm-surges-china-stocks-still-getting-hit-on-earnings\/&amp;resource_title=SalesForce.com%20%28CRM%29%20Surges%2C%20China%20Stocks%20Still%20Getting%20Hit%20On%20Earnings%20%7C%20Trading%20Stocks%20-%20Self%20Investors&amp;resource_title_encoded=0&amp;resolution=1440x900&amp;flash_version=0&amp;1201663672918&amp;serve_js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll see books&nbsp; written about this epic battle of&nbsp; the&nbsp; 3 tech behemoths &#8211; Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.&nbsp; Another chapter was written this morning as Yahoo defiantly rejected Microsoft&#8217;s bid indicating it &quot;massively undervalued&quot; the company and that the company isn&#8217;t likely to consider an offer below 40.&nbsp; There has been talk of Yahoo partnering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/news\/yahoo-rejects-microsoft-google-wins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Google Wins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}