takeover bid

Nothing to cheer about for Yahoo as stocks plummet

Topix - Linux  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 00:48

Yahoo's stock has sunk to its lowest level in nearly five years, magnifying the challenge facing the internet company as its management tries to justify their rebuff of Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid.


 

Microsoft May Keep Yahoo Apps on Open Source

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sat, 02/23/2008 - 12:51

In a "what if" memo, a Microsoft executive says it may keep some of Yahoo's apps on open source software if its takeover bid succeeds - which would mean large chunks of Microsoft's infrastructure would run on FreeBSD and PHP.