see differently, think differently

Microsoft just released their letter to Yahoo! about their plan to acquiring the company with date line given. Due to their offer in February was rejected because underpricing the price. Now, Microsoft come with the idea to do hostile takeover from the stakeholder approach if Yahoo! didn’t accept this second offer for $41 Billion.

This pressure from Microsoft to Yahoo! will impact for their shares in the market as investor perception about this hostile takeover, where Microsoft will give a bad offer if Yahoo! rejected the offer this time. What Yahoo! can do to protect this kind of threat is by staggering their board of director, so they still have some kind of “invisible hand” for the company, which I don’t know is it any regulation that regulate about this issues in US.

What will be the questions now? Do this takeover will bring a positive impact for the two company? especially from their stockholder value? What competitive advantage will Microsoft get after acquiring Yahoo! despite their search engine and market share for their well known Yahoo!Mail? As an Investor its time to watch and see, what will happen next for this two big company will struggle for the take over impact.

US number one banker in the Federal Reserve, Bernanke, gave his report to the capitol as of today US have face a recessions possibility starts in the second quarter of this year. “The worst will come first before the growth” Bernanke said. Since US have a great impact to the global economy, this will spread to other major world economic conditions as a whole.

Born February 25, 1943 in Blitar, East Java. Boediono currently being promoted to be one of the candidate for Governer of Central Bank of Indonesia. He had an amazing economic and political careers. Get his Bachelor of Economics from Western Australia University in 1967, the next five years achieve Master Degree from Monash University, also finished his Phd. from Wharton School, Pennsylvania University.

What make him as a person to have so many chances to be in so many important government duties? Was it because his characters? Intelegence? Political support? or he just “The right man in the right time”?

I’ve been admiring him for his famous micro credit theory , who try create a system in finding financial solution of poor people in Bangladesh to improve their economic condition. He implement it by establish a bank called a Grameen bank, a bank for the poor, financial institutions that give lend to poor women in family, which one of the reason is their characteristic as a women is believe to have a lower credit risk in returning the fund rather than by giving it to a man.

This has bring the noble jury to elect him among another candidate in the economic aspect. But are they giving it to the right person? Is micro credit really effective and bring up a good result in Bangladesh? Did Bangladesh practically solve the problem? (more…)