How Much is Microsoft Really willing to Spend?

Posted by Matthew Heidenreich

February 12, 2008

Money

It seems Microsoft has decided to throw its money around lately and we have have figures for you. Recently they acquired Danger and was unknown as to how much they actually paid for it. There are some figures that are making their way out of the wood work and its estimated they paid $500 million on the acquisition of Danger but they have an even bigger target in mind.

The popular search engine Yahoo! has been in the eyes of Microsoft for a long time, and Yahoo! has even shown that they do not want anything to do with Microsoft. But Microsoft is not stepping down because of that. They will look towards their shareholders instead. Microsoft first offered a mere $45 Billion and Yahoo turned it down. They still seem interested in the business and i’m sure we will be seeing even larger figures coming out. Hopefully Yahoo can hold out and stay out of the hands of Microsoft because we don’t need them to ruin a perfectly good search engine like everything else they touch.

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