The Internet boom, bring out Yahoo's walked slowly. Decline of the performance curve, so that it faces the risk of fish by someone else. Five men figure emerge, they are all in the Internet age past or future heroes. In the interests of capital, they will be around Yahoo's control, heated Gladiators and game.
29 January morning, Jerry Yang phone shows a number from Seattle, at this point, the old Yahoo CEO is located in the city of Santa Clara, California headquarters company executive meeting.
Phone is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came. The latter bluntly told Yahoo founder, he should use billion acquisition of Yahoo, Yahoo has a reply within two days, the launching of tender offer.
This is two years most strong Balmer once acquisition requirements. Get a phone call, Jerry Yang burst into the Office, on the termination of the session. Two days after Microsoft's acquisition offer on schedule.
13 years ago, at Stanford a school trailer, Jerry Yang and Ferro together founded the United States first portal Yahoo. Today, the 40-year-old elites, to corporate control had to hunt up, but it seems difficult to Yahoo's fate fell next to the others.
Steve Ballmer: the Internet of the dwarves to hop
Let Jerry Yang was "fear" by Steven Ballmer, Bill?-Gates eyes, but it is "the most lovely person."
In 2000, the gates of the wand of his hand to his friend and colleague who for many years. Steve Ballmer just simple sense of the CEO, is Microsoft's important personal shareholders, in 2005, BusinessWeek, Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's worth up to us $ 16 billion, in the Microsoft internal, second only to Microsoft two founder Bill Gates, Paul Allen's $ 50 billion?, 220 million. In August of this year, Bill Gates will retire from Microsoft. While so-called "to stem 2017 before retirement," Ballmer, Gates era, being close to Microsoft's Center of the stage.
The CEO do lean, starting publicizing, called character competitors to hysteria, a recombinant Microsoft sector, only errors and began a few years ago paid enough attention to the Internet.
This is fatal. In Silicon Valley a business luncheon, Ballmer said he doesn't like to fall behind in Google and Yahoo. Compared to other flourishing business, Microsoft Internet business losses year after year, even if MSN, also in the Red States. In recent years, the Microsoft Network Services Division of the annual average of 7 billion in losses. This Department last year's sales revenue was $ 2 billion loss 5.37 million.
And Google last year, the sales revenue of $ 166 million, the profit of more than $ 4 billion. In December last year, Google in the United States search market share for the first time reached a record 66 percent, Microsoft it continued to decline by 9.8% to 7%. At the same time, Google in the global online advertising sales share in more than 40%, while Yahoo and Microsoft's share of less than 25%. In the software industry is a "giant", but in the Internet industry, and the powerful Google, Microsoft is a "dwarf".
However, the pickup head Steve Ballmer, and soon showed him in the Internet market of explosive force. Under his leadership, Microsoft's last breath acquired more than 20, the Internet company Yahoo, Microsoft will be completed in the Internet arena spectacular leaps. If the merge was successful, the new Microsoft Yahoo will become the world's largest Internet company, creating the world's first 10 billion user-level network, have United States search engine market share of 31.5%, Google still maintains 56.3% share. The new company will have a 8310 million United States mailbox users and 4700 million United States Instant Messaging users. "Yahoo is a golden opportunity," Ballmer within the company wrote in a message.
For this "golden opportunity," Ballmer started two years ago, California hotel, Steve Ballmer and then Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has ing?-secret talks.
In late January, Microsoft's banks and lawyers team in Microsoft Park two houses like pods as low floor, planning how to bid; February, Ballmer also contacted some of the main shareholders of Yahoo; 4 February, Microsoft also announced that may be acquired by liabilities for cash in part financing; February 14, Steve Ballmer announced that the massive changes in top management to buy Yahoo moving will; 18 February, the gates of no price increases voice support for Steve Ballmer's acquisition.
"Jerry Yang is a very capable people, but he met Steve Ballmer. "One of Wall Street analysts said.
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