{"id":1579,"date":"2008-02-03T20:56:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T01:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/03\/microsoft-tables-446-billion-offer-for-yahoo\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:54","slug":"microsoft-tables-446-billion-offer-for-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2008\/02\/03\/microsoft-tables-446-billion-offer-for-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft tables $44.6-billion offer for Yahoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1950\">ReportOnBusiness.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Microsoft Corp. revealed plans for a surprise $44.6-billion (U.S.) cash and stock takeover offer for struggling Internet search pioneer Yahoo! Inc., in a move that would not only dramatically increase its share of the global Web search business but would have serious implications for top dog Google Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest software company made the announcement Friday morning after sending a letter to the Yahoo board of directors dated Jan. 31. Microsoft is offering Yahoo shareholders $31 per share for all outstanding share of Yahoo! common stock, which represents a 62 per cent premium above the price that Yahoo! shares closed at last night.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo confirmed that it had received the offer and said its board would consider the deal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ReportOnBusiness.com: Microsoft Corp. revealed plans for a surprise $44.6-billion (U.S.) cash and stock takeover offer for struggling Internet search pioneer Yahoo! Inc., in a move that would not only dramatically increase its share of the global Web search business but would have serious implications for top dog Google Inc. The world&#8217;s largest software company &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}