Dear Steve,
Are you kidding me? There is no way we’re selling out to the Evil Empire. You guys couldn’t find a clue if you had a better search engine:
- $44.6 billion? How am I supposed to buy “Star Trek” collectibles with that?- All those antitrust hearings would seriously cut into my Wii play time.- Yahoo! freakin’! rules! Does your company have an exclamation point in its name? I didn’t think so.
Go to hell (and have a Yahoolarious day),
Jerry YangChief Yahoo!
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Microsoft has walked away from the merger talks with Yahoo after the two companies failed to reach agreement on price per share. Microsoft had increased their original offer of $31 per share in cash and stock exchanges to $33 per share (I’m not clear if that $33 took into account Microsoft’s lower price since the initial offer or did not factor that in). Most reports said that Yahoo eventually indicated they would sell for $37 per share.
My take on this is that this is a clever strategic move by Ballmer and Microsoft who I think More»

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