Saravanan Sahadevan

As we all knew that this was already coming, Yahoo officially replied to Balmer that the bid offers are too low and it under values Yahoo.

From Yahoo Press Release :

At the same time, we have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders.

Yahoo’s stern reply has made Microsoft look bad to some extends. I wonder what the folks at Google and other competitors would be thinking? Having a good laugh perhaps. Earlier in one of Michael Arrington post, he linked a video of two immature hockey players fight and related it to Microsoft-Yahoo current situation.

Balmer pressured Yahoo ? Hopefully, this reply would end this issue. Anyway, What’s the big deal Microsoft ? Roundup from NYtimes,

Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven A. Ballmer, raised the pressure on Yahoo’s directors on Saturday in a letter warning that Microsoft would begin a proxy fight seeking to oust them if the two companies did not reach a negotiated deal in the next three weeks

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Yahoo, pushing their way through in order to sustain their strength in the global net market. Yahoo are currently developing a system called the AMP. Its a system that makes life of selling advertisements online easier.

For example, Yahoo Publishing partners now have the choice of placing ads on their own sites as well on Yahoo and on the sites of other publishers. Yahoo claims that advertises will be able to place their ads according to demographic profile, geography and online behavior.

Recently Google has got their acquisition on DoubleClick and is expected to also begin their approach on graphical advertisements online which currently Yahoo dominates in. 

Competition arise as Yahoo is still confident with their new system which is believed to anchor the advertisement market. Yahoo executive board currently is also in the means of convincing their investors that such new systems will boom Yahoo’s market growth.

The board is also very confident that they would certainly be progressive no matter how Microsoft attempts to reduce their investors faith in Yahoo’s current board.  

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Minutes ago, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch posted regarding Stanford’s new SSE ventures. Seriously this is pretty interesting. As most of us know many Stanford graduates came up with many startups such as Sun, Yahoo and Google. This has been a trend I suppose. Well what ever the startup is, its always a feather on Standford’s cap. 

The Stanford Student Enterprises, a student body in stamford came up with what I would say a genius solution. For all those new startups from Stanford, the student body has launched venture funds to invest directly on them. They have called it the SSE Ventures. The organization has done previously various valueable programs. Such was listed on TechCrunch,

The organization has focused on managing various investments, operating a student banking service, managing Stanford’s phone directors and selling Stanford apparel.

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BRUSSELS — The European antitrust regulator imposed a record $1.35 billion fine against Microsoft on Wednesday in a ruling intended to send a clear message to the world’s largest software maker — and to any other company — of the dangers of flouting Europe’s competition rulings.The size of the penalty, which surprised lawyers and legal experts, was a clear assertion of the power of the European Commission and its main antitrust regulator, Neelie Kroes, who is its competition commissioner. She has emerged from a lengthy legal battle with Microsoft as possibly the world’s most activist regulator.The dispute with the commission has cost Microsoft more than $2.3 billion in fines.The commission’s willingness to enforce vigorously its interpretation of what constitutes unfair competition potentially raises the costs of running a successful business in Europe for many American companies. It might pose problems for companies like Apple, Intel and Qualcomm, whose market dominance in online music downloads, computer chips and mobile phone technology is also being scrutinized by the European Commission. [More]

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