So,Yahoo!! announced its decision on the Microsoft offer. While Yahoo! has not rejected Microsoft’s offer outright, they have instead asked for $40 a share instead of the current offer of $31 per share. Clearly, Yahoo! has left room for negotiations with Microsoft. In response to Yahoo’s announcement Microsoft has issued this press release pointing out […]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Merger & Acquisition’
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Business, Google, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology, The New York Times
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Ideas, India, Merger & Acquisition, San Francisco
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) for $44.6 billion in stock/cash deal. This news of Microsoft’s bid hit the headlines early Friday morning, just before Wall Street opened for business. When Wall Street opened for business Yahoo’s stock jumped 53 percent according to Reuters. Prior to this last year Microsoft and Yahoo! were in talks […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Mobile, Podcast, Technology
It is a done deal now. Jataayu’s acquisition by Bharti Telesoft is complete. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, which means we have to wait and see if this was an outright purchase or not, and how much Bharti Telesoft paid for this acquisition. A while ago Economic Times mentioned that the acquisition […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 15th, 2007 • Category: Business, Diaspora, Ideas, India, Merger & Acquisition, New York, The New York Times
Earlier this month Vikram Pandit was named the CEO of CitiGroup Inc. Pandit replaces Chuck Prince, who resigned in November 2007. CitiGroup’s stock has suffered major setbacks at the stock market and the deepening mortgage sub-prime crisis is not helping the fortunes of the company either.
Originally from Nagpur, Pandit went to the US right after […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: Business, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology
A while ago there was talk of Microsoft-Yahoo merger, but nothing came out of those talks. Well, it seems the Microsoft-Yahoo merger news is back in the radar again because of this post by Silicon Valley Insider, who does say that he is going out a limb on this one. Kara Swisher of All Things Digital […]
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 22nd, 2007 • Category: Google, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Technology
For the past few months I have written a couple of posts wondering if Google is a search company or should it be called a media company. I finally found my answer through this CNet article written by Declan McCullagh about Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick. The central point in McCullagh’s article is the bizzare politics […]
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
