Microsoft faces the task of integrating the Silicon Valley company's culture into its own. Merging corporate cultures is generally a major problem in any acquisition and Microsoft-Yahoo would be no different. What would set this integration apart, though, is where the culture clash is likely to occur - in the two companies' basic philosophies of technology.
Although Yahoo is a generation younger than Microsoft, Yahoo is not the brash and free-wheeling start-up it was in its dot-com heyday. It still has rock concerts and Ultimate Frisbee tournaments on its campus in Sunnyvale, California, but the company, with almost 14,000 employees, has been run by a former movie studio chief for six years."<2008/02/18>
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微軟提出以每股31美元價格收購雅虎 YHOO: "
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微軟(Microsoft Corp.)向身處逆境的競爭對手雅虎公司(Yahoo! Inc.)提出了價值446億美元的收購建議﹐以期能聯手共同在網絡廣告業務領域與谷歌(Google Inc.)展開的競爭。微軟提出通過現金加股票的方式收購雅虎公司﹐合每股31美元﹐較雅虎公司週四的收盤價19.18美元溢價62%。
微軟首席執行長巴爾默(Steve Ballmer)表示﹐微軟十分尊重雅虎公司﹐兩家公司聯手不但能夠為消費者、出版商和廣告客戶提供更為滿意的一攬子解決方案﹐同時還能夠在網絡服務市場的競爭當中取得更佳的競爭地位。"<《華爾街日報》中文網絡版，2008/02/02>
BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo: "Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.
The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday.
Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company."<2008/02/01>
相關字詞：比爾‧蓋茲；比尔‧盖兹（Bill Gates）
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