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by rp 19y ago
Wouldn't the declining value of Yahoo over time have something to do with it? Yahoo stock was as high as $30 in early 2007 and was trading at under $20 when Microsoft made the announcement. Certainly the stock price has bumped up but imagin
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by rp 19y ago
As stated in the release, if the YHOO board does not accept within 3 weeks, MSFT is going hostile and will try to take over the YHOO board. A corporation does not make such public statements if it does not intend to follow through. YHOO is
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Geosign, Google and the Decline of the Search Arbitrage Business Model(financialpost.com)
7 points by rp 19y ago|0 comments
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by rp 19y ago
I agree with this statement and will make an additional comment. I wonder to what extent Warren Buffett's treatment as a oracle by the financial press creates a non-helpful feedback loop where complex financial activities that can't be redu
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by rp 19y ago
The Austin-American Statesman has video at: http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/m/73367 Judge for yourself.
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by rp 19y ago
Sorry about the link. The site's link functionality took a dive soon after I posted.
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Kapow: Web Scraping Goes Legit?(paul.kedrosky.com)
8 points by rp 19y ago|5 comments
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by rp 19y ago
The probable answer is that there is an existing business/financial relationship between the VCs and the law firms. I bet if you examined the VC's past investments, you would see the paw marks of specific big Northwest "white shoe" law firm
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by rp 19y ago
The pension fund owns 13,600 YHOO shares through mutual fund investments so they are kind of stuck. Of course, this begs the question of why they do not go after the fund(s) but that is beyond my realm of knowledge. I would also think that
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by rp 19y ago
The antitrust people would start off by looking at the hypothetical merged companies percentage of the relevant market. If the the relevant market is defined as "search," MSFTHOO would create an entity with only a 30% of the market compare
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by rp 19y ago
You just described the underlying problem with a suit such as this. There is a concept called the "business judgment rule:" if a shareholder sues the board for a breach of fiduciary duty of care, a court is unlikely to second-guess a busine
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by rp 19y ago
I disagree. This statement assumes that "two Detroit pension funds" have enough votes to oust the board of directors or that the stock is structured in a way that they could ever get these votes, even with voting trusts or voting agreements