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   #29. Posted at 11:29 AM on May 7th 2008 Edit   Reply
xii
I can't help but childishly gloat over the fact a company give Microsoft the finger.

What will happen to them now is a whole other matter, though...
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   #28. Posted at 01:56 PM on May 6th 2008 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
Pure speculation: MS decides Google has won on search. So, how else do you sell advertising on the net? You have to have page views. What are the top sites by page view?
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none

Set aside Yahoo, Google and Google affiliates (YouTube, Blogger), the sites MS already owns, and sites that can't be bought (wikipedia) or are too expensive* for what you'd get (EBay, Amazon). What's left? Myspace, Facebook, maybe AOL. MS already has a small piece of Facebook. MySpace and AOL are both owned by media companies that would be happy to sell them for the right price. It's hard to imagine MS wanting them, but I don't see what else they'd buy.

(EBay is $40B and AMZN is $32B, so MS could buy either one of them, but I just don't see the payoff)
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   #22. Posted at 08:01 AM on May 6th 2008 Edit   Reply
Thresher
This was a huge waste of time and money.

Two struggling internet search engines combined do not make a Google. I don't understand this need of MS to compete in EVERY segment of the IT market. It seems more often than not, when they target a company as a competitor, they buy some other company, merge, and then sink a ton of money into it only to remain a wannabe. It's a waste of shareholder money.

MS: Stick to your knitting.
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#22, A waste of money found in the couch cushions, maybe. Microso...  :  ludi  (#23)  «
#23, They were offering $44billion, which is more than the mar...  :  Thresher  (#24)  «
#24, That's exactly the point: Microsoft, if so humored, co...  :  ludi  (#25)  «
#22, Microsoft, like any company (and its shareholders), wants to...  :  UberGerbil  (#27)  «

   #7. Posted at 08:02 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
muyuubyou
It's all mind games. They say they're not going to go hostile, just so it tanks and then go hostile.

Hopefully it won't work.
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#7, Ah, you beat me to it. Just watch MS buy up yahoo stock via p...  :  firestorm02  (#12)  «
#7, I hope it does work, muuaahhhhhhh  :  tfp  (#16)  «
#7, That's not exactly how it works. In order for Microsoft to b...  :  TurtlePerson2  (#19)  «
#19, Yeah, buying up all the shares on the side is for people ...  :  UberGerbil  (#20)  «
#20, Well, it's the common procedure in Europe. :-) Never pl...  :  muyuubyou  (#21)  «
#21, Well, even if they wanted to go that route they wan...  :  UberGerbil  (#26)  «

   #13. Posted at 10:24 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
StashTheVampede
How many people live outside north america and post/read TR? Yahoo's brand awareness is much stronger outside of the US.

In various asian markets, Google is NOT #1 or even #2 for brand awareness or use. Yahoo is very large in Korea and Japan (not sure about China, but Yahoo bought a major chinese search engine a few years ago), whereas Google bring terrible results and its market presence is virtually nil.

Yahoo has a point about the value/share -- they *are* worth more money than what MS put on the table. Time will tell if this is still the case.
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#13, 'Worth it' to whom, though? Microsoft's final offer was more...  :  ludi  (#17)  «
#13, Google is #2 in China after Baidu  :  grantmeaname  (#18)  «

   #11. Posted at 09:48 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
albundy
wait until their stock is next to nothing and they have like 2 employees, then buy them out for a fraction of your initial bid.
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#11, At that point there's nothing worth buying.  :  UberGerbil  (#15)  «

   #1. Posted at 06:10 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
data8504
Wow. Thanks to *everyone*? How many people flagged it? Did anyone actually think Cyril *wouldn't* notice the big breaking news of the weekend?
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#1, I sent one in, just because it was pretty early when the new...  :  Hdfisise  (#14)  «

   #8. Posted at 08:13 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
flip-mode
so is anyone going to go buy Yahoo stock once it tanks?
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   #6. Posted at 07:43 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
credo
Me thinks this is Microsoft putting Yahoo in its place. Letting 'em see what their really worth...

bad, bad Microsoft! where's my newspaper?
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   #5. Posted at 07:21 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
Kurotetsu
The stock market is such a bizarre universe to live in.

<Microsoft> LOL! By surrendering, we've won! *starts moving furniture in*

<Yahoo> ^@(*Y#*!!!!
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   #4. Posted at 07:16 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
Xenolith
YHOO tanks. Cheap stock allows MSFT to consider another take over. This ain't over by any stretch.
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   #2. Posted at 06:50 AM on May 5th 2008 Edit   Reply
derFunkenstein
cue the stock absolutely tanking. Hope Yahoo's investors sold while the bid was on the table.
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#2, It's already down almost 22% this morning and falling.  :  Master Kenobi  (#3)  «
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