RPT-Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo in $44.6 bln deal

Fri Feb 1, 2008 6:44am EST
 
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NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.

Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company's closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday. (Reporting by Franklin Paul)

 
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