The proposed US $ 31 per share represents a premium of 62% on the current price.
Microsoft already has plans for integrating the officials of the two companies.
Microsoft has made a proposal to purchase the Yahoo! This Friday (1) valued at $ 44.6 billion. The objective of the company is to increase its competitiveness in the market for online services, and, especially, from search engines.
The proposed US $ 31 per share represents a premium of 62% on the close of yesterday''''s action of Yahoo! On the New York Stock Exchange, to $ 19.18. With the news, from around 10am (Brasilia), the shares of Yahoo! Disparavam 54% in the pre-market on Wall Street, listed at $ 29.70, while Microsoft recuava 2%, to $ 31.95.
On release, the giant of the software industry, said the agreement would create a company more efficient, with a synergy total of $ 1 billion a year, with the generation of more value to advertisers and operating efficiencies.
Microsoft also revealed that already have developed a plan to integrate the officials of the two companies.
The expectation of Microsoft is to obtain regulatory approval for the agreement, with its completion planned for the second half of 2008.
"We have a great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer a range of solutions increasingly attractive to consumers, publishers and advertisers, while posicionamos best in the competition in the market for online services," said Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft .
Revitalising the company
The announcement was made before the opening of markets in the United States, one day after the ex-chief executive of Yahoo! Terry Semel left the board of the company.
The departure of Semel happens after that Yahoo! Announced a project to reduce staff by 1,000 employees as part of an effort to revitalize the company.
The co-founder of Yahoo! Jerry Yang Semel replaced as chief executive to enhance the profits of the Californian firm and the price of the shares.
Yahoo! Suffered a drop in its profits in the fourth quarter of 2007 and throughout the year, and warned that 2008 would also be difficult, as enfernta uam reorganization to increase its main source of incomes, sales of advertising.
The company recorded a net profit in the fourth quarter of $ 205.7 million, a decline of 23.5%, and for the whole year low in a profit of 12.1%, to $ 660 million.
Currently, its competitor, Google, embolsa more than 32% of their income from advertising on the Internet worldwide, compared with less than 20% for Yahoo, after just two years the two groups registering positions very close.
Yahoo! Was founded in 1994 by students Jerry Yang and David Filo at Stanford University. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California (USA).
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Worldwide Online Population Forecast
In its "Worldwide Online Population Forecast, 2006 to 2011, Jupiter Research anticipates that a 38 percent increase in the number of people with online access will mean that, by 2011, 22 percent of the Earth's population will surf the Internet regularly.
Jupiter Research says the worldwide online population will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6.6 percent during the next five years, far outpacing the 1.1 percent compound annual growth rate for the planet's population as a whole. The report says 1.1 billion people currently enjoy regular access to the Web.
North America will remain on top in terms of the number of people with online access. According to Jupiter Research, online penetration rates on the continent will increase from the current 70 percent of the overall North American population to 76 percent by 2011. However, Internet adoption has "matured," and its adoption pace has slowed, in more developed countries including the United States, Canada, Japan and much of Western Europe, notes the report.
As the online population of the United States and Canada grows by about only 3 percent, explosive adoption rates in China and India will take place, says Jupiter Research. The report says China should reach an online penetration rate of 17 percent by 2011 and India should hit 7 percent during the same time frame. This growth is directly related to infrastructure development and increased consumer purchasing power, notes Jupiter Research.
By 2011, Asians will make up about 42 percent of the world's population with regular Internet access, 5 percent more than today, says the study.
Penetration levels similar to North America's are found in Scandinavia and bigger Western European nations such as the United Kingdom and Germany, but Jupiter Research says that a number of Central European countries "are relative Internet laggards."
Brazil "with its soaring economy," is predicted by Jupiter Research to experience a 9 percent compound annual growth rate, the fastest in Latin America, but China and India are likely to do the most to boost the world's online penetration in the near future.
For the study, Jupiter Research defined "online users" as people who regularly access the Internet by "dedicated Internet access" devices. Those devices do not include cell phones.
Jupiter Research says the worldwide online population will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 6.6 percent during the next five years, far outpacing the 1.1 percent compound annual growth rate for the planet's population as a whole. The report says 1.1 billion people currently enjoy regular access to the Web.
North America will remain on top in terms of the number of people with online access. According to Jupiter Research, online penetration rates on the continent will increase from the current 70 percent of the overall North American population to 76 percent by 2011. However, Internet adoption has "matured," and its adoption pace has slowed, in more developed countries including the United States, Canada, Japan and much of Western Europe, notes the report.
As the online population of the United States and Canada grows by about only 3 percent, explosive adoption rates in China and India will take place, says Jupiter Research. The report says China should reach an online penetration rate of 17 percent by 2011 and India should hit 7 percent during the same time frame. This growth is directly related to infrastructure development and increased consumer purchasing power, notes Jupiter Research.
By 2011, Asians will make up about 42 percent of the world's population with regular Internet access, 5 percent more than today, says the study.
Penetration levels similar to North America's are found in Scandinavia and bigger Western European nations such as the United Kingdom and Germany, but Jupiter Research says that a number of Central European countries "are relative Internet laggards."
Brazil "with its soaring economy," is predicted by Jupiter Research to experience a 9 percent compound annual growth rate, the fastest in Latin America, but China and India are likely to do the most to boost the world's online penetration in the near future.
For the study, Jupiter Research defined "online users" as people who regularly access the Internet by "dedicated Internet access" devices. Those devices do not include cell phones.
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