Thursday, July 24, 2008

Money & Business

Money Matters by Katy Marquardt and Kirk Shinkle

Bill Miller Sounds Off on Yahoo

February 13, 2008 11:47 AM ET | Katy Marquardt | Permanent Link

In his latest shareholder letter, Bill Miller says Yahoo is in a "tough spot if it wishes to remain independent." (Legg Mason is the second-largest holder of Yahoo, which rejected Microsoft's unsolicited takeover bid on Monday.) Says Miller: "We think it will be hard for YHOO to come up with alternatives that deliver more value than MSFT will ultimately be willing to pay." He goes on to say that Microsoft needs to sweeten its offer if it wants to make a deal and that he expects the company to "do what it takes" to buy Yahoo.

Tags: Microsoft | stocks | Yahoo

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Microsoft on UNIX?

It will be interesting to see how it pans out. Yahoo! runs on a derivative of UNIX, and their employees use Linux (another UNIX) on their desk tops. Is Microsoft going to bludgeon its way through this too?

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Katy Marquardt came to U.S. News from Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, where she profiled rising stars in the mutual-fund world and wrote about investing in stocks and racehorses. Katy hails from Abilene, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas-Austin.

Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily. A native of the Montana-Texas corridor, he currently resides in the wilds of west Brooklyn. His checkered online evolution looks like this: Friendster, still (!). MySpace, no. Facebook, yes. He blogs here, Twitters occasionally, and has yet to Tumblr.

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