The message said Microsoft will bid 50 billion for Yahoo in 10 days

According to foreign media reports, Henry blodget, Chief Analyst of Merrill Lynch securities, today announced that Sarah Lacy, head of Yahoo financial column techticker, has confirmed that, M & A negotiations between Yahoo and the news group are only a smoke bullet. Microsoft will raise the price to $35 per share (the transaction value is about $50 billion) within 10 days and win Yahoo.

Lacey wrote in his blog:

Sorry, Yahoo! The transaction with the news group cannot happen. The message I got is that rumors that Yahoo is negotiating with the news group have been mentioned. As Henry blogit and Aaron Task said this morning, this is just Yahoo's negotiating skills. One night before Microsoft released its Yahoo Acquisition Scheme, two private equity investment groups were also preparing to compete for Yahoo. At least one of them threw an olive branch to the news group, but the boss of the news group, Murdoch, made it clear that, he is "not interested" in this ".

Another person told me that Microsoft is confident in the acquisition of Yahoo, and thinks that its offer is very close to the expectations of Yahoo's biggest shareholder, making it hard for Yahoo to refuse. Microsoft has even begun drafting specific management documents. This person expects Microsoft to raise its offer to $35 per share within 10 days, winning support from Yahoo's biggest shareholder. Once successful, the news group will never be able to return to the market. When the market is unstable, Wall Street's Investment Managers will not miss such an opportunity to get a reliable return.

Piljet has some doubts about what LAsi said about the $35 offer and believes that the initiative of M & A is in Microsoft's hands. At the same time, brogit believes that merging with news companies is a bad deal for Yahoo.

Source: http://dwww.cn/news/2008-2/20082151538316484.shtml