YAHOO SPURNED MICROSOFT'S BID

Two online giants, Yahoo and Microsoft, are still being preoccupied in a tug of war. The software giant, Microsoft, expects to take over Yahoo and merge the companies’ culture and resources. The company’s executive on February 22 sent workers an upbeat email outlining a vision how the take-over is all about. Yahoo, however, spurned Microsoft’s US$44.6 billion bid for the veteran internet firm. Microsoft is reportedly planning a hostile take-over bid if Yahoo’s board of directors doesn’t change its mind.

“We look forward to a constructive dialogue with Yahoo’s board, management, shareholders, and employees on the value of this combination and its strategies and financial merits” wrote Kevin Johnson, Microsoft platform and service division president. “Once Yahoo and Microsoft agree on a transaction, we can begin the integration planning process in parallel with the regulatory review” added Johnson.

In the effort to avoid being gobbled up by Microsoft, the struggling Internet firm has reportedly explored alliance with Google, Time Warner-owned AOL, and MySpace of News Corp. Some Yahoo stockholders are suing the firm for not accepting an offer Microsoft made.

What idea can we pull out from the psy-war?. A lucrative firm will always attract others to passionately make a take-over. The more developed a honey-bee nest is, the sweeter it tastes. The tug of war of the two online giants might be, especially of the Yahoo side, a strategy to reach the expected amount of bid. It is there, then, that we can learn a trick about how to develop a business that enables us to be a million dollar man.