Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, rebuffing higher sale price

Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid, rebuffing higher sale price

Posted on May 3, 2008 by Tony Jones


SEATTLE - Microsoft says it's dropping its three-month-old bid to buy Yahoo because the two sides can't agree on an acceptable sale price.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer says in a letter sent to Yahoo on Saturday that the software maker was willing to pay $47.5 billion for Yahoo. That's $33 per share.

Ballmer says Yahoo insisted that Microsoft pay at least $53 billion. That's $37 per share.

Microsoft's original offer was $44.6 billion, or $31 per share.


Source: - The Associated Press & Yahoo! News

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