By now you should have all heard about the thing going on out there. Here’s the short version: Microsoft makes a public announcement and says ‘Alright Yahoo, here’s 44.6 billion dollars, we wanna buy your company!’. Yahoo sees the bid (correct term: unsolicited offer) and says plainly ‘No… thanks’. Later on they add ‘We’d rather go with Google’, stabbing a knife in Microsoft’s heart.
The Borg Collective is nonetheless moving forward and is preparing an assimilation (correct term: hostile takeover) of the company. A now publicly posted email prepares workers worldwide for a merger with Yahoo, but also urges the employees to see Yahoo as competitor as long as the deal has not yet closed.
In a message to employees, Microsoft platform and services division president Kevin Johnson shared “a perspective of the process going forward.”
“We look forward to a constructive dialogue with Yahoo’s board, management, shareholders, and employees on the value of this combination and its strategic and financial merits,” Johnson wrote.
“Once Yahoo and Microsoft agree on a transaction, we can begin the integration planning process in parallel with the regulatory review.”
If Yahoo capitulates, the transaction would likely close in the second half of this year, according to Johnson.
Funny thing is, that this quote is posted on Yahoo.com. Curious.
If you wanna read the full message to the Borg hive, well, here it is.
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