{"id":71,"date":"2008-02-11T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/02\/11\/yahoo-said-rejecting-microsoft.aspx"},"modified":"2008-02-11T08:06:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T08:06:38","slug":"yahoo-said-rejecting-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Said Rejecting Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Yahoo board is said to believe the $44.6 billion offer undervalues the company.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) &#8211; Yahoo Inc&#8217;s board believes Microsoft Corp&#8217;s unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo &#8220;massively undervalues&#8221; the company and directors are set to reject the offer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s $31 per share offer fails to take account of the risks that a merger between the world&#8217;s largest software maker and Yahoo would be rejected by regulators, the paper reported, citing &#8220;a person familiar with the situation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Yahoo, a diversified Internet media company, declined to comment on the proceedings of the company&#8217;s board of directors. <\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Eric Auchard and Anupreeta Das in San Francisco and Megan Davies in New York, editing by Vicki Allen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yahoo board is said to believe the $44.6 billion offer undervalues the company. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) &#8211; Yahoo Inc&#8217;s board believes Microsoft Corp&#8217;s unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo &#8220;massively undervalues&#8221; the company and directors are set to reject the offer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source. [&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-71","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\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}