posten, aber nach dem Anstieg gestern haben die nackten Shortseller offensichtlich wieder eine Sperre gegen mich durchgedrückt, die mir allerdings von Yahoo nicht gemeldet und erklärt wurde, sondern wenn ich etwas poste heißt es lediglich, dass da momentan ein Problem sein und das nur vorübergenden sei.
Was ist passiert? Posten wollte ich zu dem folgenden nicht von mir stammenden sehr interessanten Posting:
in Topic Minimum rating: 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars + unrated 1 star + unrated What's this? LOCM ON THE VERGE OF GREATNESS 25-Dec-09 11:09 am Yelp Turns Down Google, for Now
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER 12/24/09
Yelp backed out of acquisition talks with Google over the weekend, according to two people briefed on the discussions.
As we reported last week, Google was close to buying Yelp, the Web site with directories and reviews of local businesses, for more than $500 million. No agreement had been signed, and we raised the possibility that the deal could fall apart if other suitors, such as Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo or IAC/InterActiveCorp, made a bid.
Indeed, Yelp received interest from another company for a price of about 50 percent more than Google was willing to pay, according to a person who is close to the negotiations. That would put the price around $750 million.
“The board was precluded by fiduciary obligations from accepting the Google offer,” said one of the people briefed on the events. Yelp and Google declined to comment.
Yelp is not considering selling to any other company, one source said. Though Yelp might be able to fetch a higher price elsewhere, it is not interested in merging with a company that is not a good fit, the person said.
Half of the attraction of Google’s offer was the price, one person said, but the other half was “true business synergies between Yelp and Google such that Yelp would have become the dominant international brand for local.”
Still, the negotiations may not be over. Two sources briefed on the matter said that Yelp and Google remain in contact and that discussions could resume.
It is a common negotiating tactic for companies to take offers off the table as a form of brinksmanship, to try and extract a better price from the acquirer, said Anthony Alfonso, president of Trenwith Valuation, a company that calculates how much companies are worth and is affiliated with an investment bank that advises on acquisitions.
“My gut says that might be posturing,” Mr. Alfonso said. “I have a hard time believing that a board of directors of a venture-backed company is going to walk away from $750 million. I’m fairly certain something will get done.” He added that a brinksmanship strategy “can be dangerous if the buyer calls your bluff.”
It is also a tactic to send messages through the media and signal a price that would be acceptable.
Yelp could also be considering a public offering. Paul Kedrosky, an investor and editor of Infectious Greed, a blog about finance and venture capital, predicted a wave of I.P.O.s of tech companies this year and named Yelp as a possibility.
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Dazu wollte ich posten, dass Yelp in 2009 nur einen Umsatz von 30 Millionen erzielen werden, Local.com einen von 56 Millionen - und sie täten das selbe. Dann habe ich dazugefügt, dass ich nicht nachvollziehen könne, warum Yelp nach Ansicht der Analysten und der Presseorgange eine halbe Milliarde oder mehr sein solle, während Local.com zwar ordentlich gestiegen sie, aber immer noch bie unglaublich niedrigen 90 Millionen Dollar Marktkapitalisierung herumdümpele.
Warum das Yahoo als Verbrechen ansieht, weiss ich auch nicht, aber vielleicht hat dort jemand, der mein Posting nicht zulässt Local.com geshortet - denn dann würde mir auch das Zäpfchen bis zum Anschlag gehen.
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