{"id":35536,"date":"2011-10-07T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=35536"},"modified":"2011-10-07T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T08:12:33","slug":"microsoft-considers-buying-yahoo-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/35536-microsoft-considers-buying-yahoo-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft considers buying Yahoo, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> appears to be one of many bidders interested in taking over <a title=\"Yahoo!\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363118-Yahoo\">Yahoo!<\/a>, an Internet search and feature company with a market value of around $20 billion (R158.70 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Other companies in the running for Yahoo include Providence Equity Partners, Hellman &amp; Friedman, Silver Lake Partners, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, and Russian technology investment firm DST Global according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Internal divisions at Microsoft are slowing decisions down however, with some executives feeling that Yahoo doesn\u2019t present enough opportunity for growth to justify the $20 billion (R158.70 billion) price tag.<\/p>\n<p>One high level executive speaking on condition of anonymity said, \u201cYahoo&#8217;s value hasn&#8217;t grown in years, and some executives feel we should buy something that is more forward-looking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s initial bid of $47.5 billion (R376.91 billion) or $33 (R261.85) per share was rejected by Yahoo in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Reuters news agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/10\/06\/us-yahoo-microsoft-idUSTRE79458Y20111006?feedType=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is contemplating bidding for Yahoo Inc, 3 years after its original offer was rejected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5476,5478,5472,123,5470,5474,2744],"class_list":["post-35536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-alibaba","tag-dst-global","tag-hellman-friedman","tag-microsoft","tag-providence-equity-partners","tag-silver-lake-partners","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35540,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35536\/revisions\/35540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}