Chapter 2634 The Situation Changes Suddenly

Entering May, there was no worse news coming out on subprime mortgages or Wall Street.

It doesn't seem to be getting worse, but it's not getting significantly better either.

But whether it is the suspicious United States, the fearful Europe, or other countries in the world, this is already an excellent state.

It's equivalent to the later housing prices in my country. If they don't rise, or rather don't rise too quickly, it's already pretty good. Do you still expect it to come down?

On the economic level, at the beginning of May, the headlines belonged to Silicon Valley again.

On the morning of the 1st, at the beginning of Labor Day in most countries around the world (Labor Day originated in the United States, but Labor Day in the United States is on the first Monday in September), Microsoft and NEXTDOOR issued a joint statement, They will form a joint team and continue to be responsible for the ongoing acquisition of Yahoo.

This statement, issued in the early hours of the morning, had become well-known news in the world's high-tech circles by morning.

Microsoft and NEXTDOOR join forces, representatives of established high-tech companies join forces with representatives of emerging high-tech companies, and the target is Yahoo, which plays an important role in the Internet field...

Feng Yiping, the founder of NEXTDOOR, his relationship with Google and Apple, as well as the past and competition between Google and Yahoo, the competition between Microsoft and Google, the love entanglement between Microsoft and Apple, the Android launched by Feng Yiping, and the competition with Apple, Yahoo’s recent proposed cooperation with Google, NEXTDOOR’s cooperation with Apple…

It was already a mess, but now NEXTDOOR has teamed up with Microsoft to acquire Yahoo... It's really confusing, and a thousand people can come up with at least a thousand interpretations.

But at least one thing that is very certain is that the target of Feng Yiping's NEXTDOOR, the Blue Ocean 3 registered not long ago, can finally be determined, and it is undoubtedly Yahoo.

From Blue Ocean 1 to Blue Ocean 2, and now Blue Ocean 3, the pace of NEXTDOOR's mergers and acquisitions has never stopped, and the scale of mergers and acquisitions targets has also increased exponentially.

At first it was only a few hundred million dollars, then it was billions of dollars, and now it has directly risen to the level of tens of billions of dollars.

This objectively reflects the growth rate of Feng Yiping's company in recent years.

However, when thinking about the significance and past status of Yahoo, and the similarities between Yahoo's founder and Feng Yiping, in China, this news still makes some people feel unspeakably sad.

Even though you are in the United States, you two are from the same roots!

Many people look at their Yahoo mailboxes and think about the era of free Internet created by Yahoo. They feel that the old Microsoft and the emerging NEXTDOOR are teaming up to bully people.

This is the foundation Yahoo has laid over the years.

However, there are many people who feel this way, but for most of them, that's all.

No matter how Yahoo has lost its former glory, it seems that life is better than that of more than 99.9999% of users. As long as Yahoo's mailbox can be used for free in the future and news can be read for free, then even if everyone behind it changes to Microsoft and NEXTDOOR actually have nothing to do with each other.

No matter how evil Microsoft is and how greedy it is for money, it's impossible for them to charge money for these services.

Considering that NEXTDOOR has so many ideas, I don’t know if Yahoo.com will be able to provide you with more surprises in the future!

Many people quickly put this news to the back of their minds. No matter what new changes there are in these things, it will not affect them for the time being.

But the excitement doesn’t end there.

After nearly three months of being uncompromising before the market opened, Yahoo's founder and current CEO Jerry Yang announced for the first time that for the company's long-term development, Yahoo will carefully consider Microsoft's proposal from now on. acquisition agreement.

Yahoo also assured that no matter how it changes in the future, it will always put service users first...

But this time, many people didn't have the patience to read the full text of his statement - they were eager to celebrate.

On this morning, many people in the United States who hold Yahoo stocks stopped drinking coffee and milk and switched to alcohol.

Haha, after investing for so many years, with so many ups and downs, I finally have a pretty good ending.

Corresponding to everyone's toast, after the market opened, Yahoo's stock price once again rose sharply by more than 20%.

Chief Yang looked at the stock price changes on the computer and had mixed feelings.

The market's reaction is a very direct indication of its welcome to his decision, and it can also be regarded as supporting Feng Yiping's conclusions.

In other words, he was really bucking the trend before.

Such a result also made him feel more relaxed. In comparison, ending the curtain in such a way was not only decent, but also worthy of all the investors who had trusted them and placed their hope in them.

At the same time, such changes also gave him a better reason to negotiate prices with Microsoft.

In February, on the day Microsoft announced its acquisition of Yahoo, Yahoo's stock price rose sharply by 56%. Although the stock price fell back due to its persistence in not giving in, with today's increase of more than 20%, the overall stock price is lower than what Microsoft proposed. On the day of the acquisition, it had risen by more than 25%.

On the other hand, after revealing its plan to acquire Yahoo, Microsoft's stock price dropped - but this was a phenomenon that made him feel uncomfortable when he thought about it.

Because Microsoft originally planned to acquire Yahoo's payment solution, nearly half of their stock and half of it were cash. Now, the cash portion will naturally increase. He personally feels that an increase of US$5 billion is a very reasonable request.

But the excitement doesn’t end there. Following the statements from Microsoft, NEXTDOOR, and Yahoo, News Corporation also jumped out. “News Corporation has always been committed to providing more and more complete news information to all people in the world. Therefore, we We value Yahoo, a world-renowned news platform, for its contribution to our news business..."

"...After careful consideration, we have decided to launch the plan to acquire Yahoo. We believe that Yahoo's platform will help us provide more thoughtful and convenient services to all users..."

The industry was immediately in an uproar.

This is not the first time that News Corporation has expressed its coveting of Yahoo. However, they did not have such strength and corresponding confidence before. Now it seems that MySpace must have given them a lot of sweetness, so that they have the courage. Start such high-tech M&A projects exceeding US$40 billion.

The addition of News Corporation was just the beginning. Immediately afterwards, America Online also jumped out, "...As the most successful Internet service provider, we believe that working together with Yahoo, we will definitely provide users with... "

Not many people have the patience to read AOL's statement.

Do you still have the energy to acquire a giant like Yahoo? Is it better to break up with Time Warner as soon as possible and talk about other things?

Also, don’t expect that we can still support your mergers and acquisitions. Your bad merger with Time Warner has long exhausted everyone’s trust.

America Online, which was ridiculed by the crowd, was not the end. Then, Comcast expressed its interest in the acquisition. Then, another media giant in the United States owned the first national daily newspaper in the United States, "USA Today". As well as multiple television and radio stations, a cable network’s Gannett News Group joined in...

So in the end, like Microsoft, another high-tech giant in Seattle, Amazon, also expressed interest in Yahoo.

Chief Yang still feels relieved by this kind of news.

That so many well-known companies are bidding for Yahoo fully illustrates the value of the company they founded.

This is completely different from when he wanted to package Yahoo China and give it to old people for free.

However, when he was happy, he couldn't help but wonder whether so many companies expressed interest in Yahoo so quickly, was it because of Feng Yiping's famous good vision?

He finally decided not to dwell on the potentially unpleasant consequences of this.

But at this time, some people did not think deeply and already felt unhappy.

For example, Carl Icahn, who originally planned to take this opportunity to repeat his old tricks, make another fortune, and install a few of his own people on Yahoo's board of directors, knew after seeing Chief Yang's statement that his plan had been declared bankrupt.

He was angrily asking around, who was it that prompted Chief Yang, who was originally very determined, to change his attitude so simply?

But the one who is suffering the most at this time is undoubtedly Masayoshi Son, who is still staying in New York.