{"id":10280,"date":"2009-07-31T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Steve-Ballmer-Surprised-At-Investor-Reaction-to-MSYahoo-Deal"},"modified":"2009-07-31T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T15:28:31","slug":"steve-ballmer-surprised-at-investor-reaction-to-ms-yahoo-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10280","title":{"rendered":"Steve Ballmer Surprised At Investor Reaction to MS-Yahoo Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have had a couple days to digest the strategic partnership Microsoft and Yahoo jointly announced this week, and they&nbsp; aren&#8217;t exactly pouring money into Yahoo&#8217;s coffers. The company&#8217;s stock price (Ticker: YHOO) has fallen nearly 20 percent over the past five days, from its July 27 price of $17.31 to today&#8217;s $14.44 (as of this writing). Microsoft&#8217;s stock is up very slightly over the same period, from $23.11 to today&#8217;s $23.81, but a flat trend doesn&#8217;t constitute a ringing endorsement. &#8220;I was myself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have had a couple days to digest the strategic partnership Microsoft and Yahoo jointly announced this week, and they&nbsp; aren&#8217;t exactly pouring money into Yahoo&#8217;s coffers. The company&#8217;s stock price (Ticker: YHOO) has fallen nearly 20 percent over the past five days, from its July 27 price of $17.31 to today&#8217;s $14.44 (as of this writing). Microsoft&#8217;s stock is up very slightly over the same period, from $23.11 to today&#8217;s $23.81, but a flat trend doesn&#8217;t constitute a ringing endorsement. &#8220;I was myself <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10280\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}