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Steve Ballmer: Microsoft 'lucky' it got rejected by Yahoo in 2008

article published on 19 October, 2011

Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said the company is lucky it did not purchase Yahoo! in 2008. When asked by the speaker "Are you glad you didn't buy Yahoo?," Ballmer responded, "You know, times change. When you ask any CEO [that type of question] after the market has fallen apart, it's 'hallelujah.' Sometimes, you're lucky." ... [ read the full article ]

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Mysttic
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_ 		20. October 2011 @ 01:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
MS definitely got the better end of this deal; yahoo should have sold.
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Azuran
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_ 		20. October 2011 @ 14:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Not a very good judge of estimated economic gains/losses. Yahoo's stock fell under Yahoo's management. It's a fallacy to assume that the same would have happened under MS management and resources; although you could make a strong argument that it would.
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