{"id":1639,"date":"2008-03-26T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T09:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/03\/26\/what-you-need-to-know-about-microsoft-s-proposed-takeover-of-yahoo.aspx"},"modified":"2008-03-26T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T09:06:21","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-microsoft-s-proposed-takeover-of-yahoo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about Microsoft&#8217;s proposed takeover of Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Does a Microsoft-Yahoo deal make sense?<\/b> Probably. As separate companies, Microsoft and Yahoo duplicate systems and staff. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a merger could save $1 billion annually. According to industry observers, the time is right because Yahoo&#8217;s stock is down, and the company hasn&#8217;t improved its results even after co-founder Jerry Yang took over as CEO in the middle of last year. Plus, Microsoft&#8217;s offer, initially 62% over Yahoo&#8217;s share price, is a very good deal for Yahoo shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9071478\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9071478\">http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/action\/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&#038;articleId=9071478<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a Microsoft-Yahoo deal make sense? Probably. As separate companies, Microsoft and Yahoo duplicate systems and staff. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a merger could save $1 billion annually. According to industry observers, the time is right because Yahoo&#8217;s stock is down, and the company hasn&#8217;t improved its results even after co-founder Jerry Yang took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}