SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft can build a competitive online advertising business without Yahoo but it "could just take more time," CEO Steve Ballmer told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Friday.
The comment came as analysts and industry watchers awaited an imminent announcement on Microsoft's next move in its unresolved quest to acquire Yahoo as part of a strategy to compete with Internet advertising king Google.
Ballmer declined to say how Microsoft would react to Yahoo's rejection of its unsolicited $44.6 billion bid or when the company would announce a decision.
"With the right circumstances it'll happen. Without the right circumstances it won't happen," Ballmer told the Journal.
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3005118.cms
Today's news was filled with headlines about the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, so as tired as I am writing about this cat-and-mouse game, I have no choice. I have to wonder though, if this whole ordeal will hurt Microsoft's chance in the future of mounting a hostile takeover. Will anyone take them serious? I certainly wouldn't
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