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Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $45 billion
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article published on 1 February, 2008
Microsoft has announced today that they have made an offer to buy Yahoo. The long speculated acquisition now has a price tag on it, $44,6 billion, which is significantly more than the current market value of Yahoo. According to Microsoft the deal would improve the operational efficiency and increase value for advertisers, which would create a "more efficient" company.
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1. February 2008 @ 07:56 |
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According to Microsoft the deal would improve the operational efficiency and increase value for advertisers, which would create a "more efficient" company
That is just hilarious coming from Microcrap, looks like I will be leaving Yahoo behind if this deal goes through.
Not that I would blame the Yahoo guys for taking a deal like 45 Billion
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1. February 2008 @ 08:36 |
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i dun think they will agree , yahoo has history
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1. February 2008 @ 09:07 |
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Yahoo had to lay of people the owners might say 50-70B "hell yeah I quit for hobby!"
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1. February 2008 @ 09:16 |
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LOL... Microsoft and operational efficiency in the same sentence?
I don't think so..
Nice try MacroCon.
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glasssd
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1. February 2008 @ 09:22 |
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Just like MS, If you cant beat them, Buy them.
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1. February 2008 @ 09:49 |
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Nothing like watching M$ flex their muscles...again.
Couldn't really blame Yahoo! for taking the 45billion.
EDIT: Typo. :)
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1. February 2008 @ 10:18 |
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45 billion not mill...craziness. yahoo would be stupid to not accept the money. it may not benefit us but they will be getting 2 times what their worth so its a win winfor yahoo. wonder if MS will incorporate it into live somehow ....maybe add a damn web browser sometime in this century.
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1. February 2008 @ 10:32 |
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If this deal goes through, I wonder how long it will take before we see the first Microsoft fix for Yahoo! Search pop up in our Automatic Updates.
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1. February 2008 @ 11:54 |
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Ya-WHO??
Do they have a website or something?
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1. February 2008 @ 11:55 |
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I read the full article (it's on page 2) and it mentioned that Microsoft's offer might lead other suitors to make offers for Yahoo. Other than possibly Google, who else would be interested in paying that much for Yahoo. I know there are other large companies out there, and Oracle always loves to go shopping, but who else would seriously consider this?
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1. February 2008 @ 12:26 |
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Originally posted by silk42:
I read the full article (it's on page 2) and it mentioned that Microsoft's offer might lead other suitors to make offers for Yahoo. Other than possibly Google, who else would be interested in paying that much for Yahoo. I know there are other large companies out there, and Oracle always loves to go shopping, but who else would seriously consider this?
I doubt that Google even could make a bid for Yahoo, as the deal would be blocked by authorities in States, EU, etc as it would give simply too much power for Google in search (not that they don't have the muscle already :-).
Interestingly enough, despite Google being very, very good in what they do, this might be good for consumers, as in all business fields the innovations happen much, much more often if there's real competition in the marketplace. And, looking at worldwide search figures, there currently isn't.
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1. February 2008 @ 12:42 |
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Opens FF and Google's Yahoo....ahhh...LOL.
People still use that worthless search engine?
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1. February 2008 @ 12:59 |
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I doubt that Google even could make a bid for Yahoo, as the deal would be blocked by authorities in States, EU, etc as it would give simply too much power for Google in search (not that they don't have the muscle already :-).
I don't think it would be blocked for creating a monopoly, because there are still several search sites available (Live.com, Ask.com, Search.com, AltaVista.com, Dogpile.com, etc...). Those are just a few that I know off the top of my head and I'm sure there are more. Simply because the vast majority of the population chooses to use Google, doesn't mean that it's doing anything illegal. It's simply a matter of the other search engines not keeping up.
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1. February 2008 @ 13:33 |
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Guess I'll need to dump my Microsoft stock before this becomes final. Paying nearly double what Yahoo is worth? This is BS!
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aj123
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1. February 2008 @ 16:11 |
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I doubt that Google even could make a bid for Yahoo, as the deal would be blocked by authorities in States, EU, etc as it would give simply too much power for Google in search (not that they don't have the muscle already :-).
I don't think it would be blocked for creating a monopoly, because there are still several search sites available (Live.com, Ask.com, Search.com, AltaVista.com, Dogpile.com, etc...). Those are just a few that I know off the top of my head and I'm sure there are more. Simply because the vast majority of the population chooses to use Google, doesn't mean that it's doing anything illegal. It's simply a matter of the other search engines not keeping up.
Just keep this in mind. Google has about 66% of the search engine market and obviously leads all other companies. Yahoo and microsoft(#2 and 3, respectively) combine to make only 30% i believe. So, if google acquires yahoo, they would have atleast 82% of the market, which to me is quite alot. There's a link to my info somewhere on msn.
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2. February 2008 @ 00:17 |
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with that extra 20 billion, Yahoo! should just make a whole new website, and advertise that thing like crazy; i believe 20 billion is more than enough.
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2. February 2008 @ 04:58 |
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great, whatever OS MS comes up with next will be integrated with yahoo BS...
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jove
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2. February 2008 @ 12:06 |
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nooooooooooooo yahoo, noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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varnull
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2. February 2008 @ 12:19 |
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I love it.. one out of ideas and failing business buys another out of ideas failing business.. Gotta make sense..
So will vista machines only take people to yahoo homepage when, not if this happens.. instead of that "force it down your throat" M$ forever to load page??
hehehehe.. I have had a load of panic service calls because IE whatever crap version it is was giving a 404 server not found and the vista n00bs didn't know how to change homepage.. which I must say is really hard to do... deliberate attempt at M$ only lockin.. and I tested and found I could not access my website from vista, as others have reported..
These 2 will vanish together, sunk the sea of failed proprietry technology, DRM and consumer lockin.
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3. February 2008 @ 02:27 |
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i don't mind Microsoft buying Yahoo, as long as it is not Walmart buying yahoo.
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3. February 2008 @ 10:46 |
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Why,How does this benifet MS. Wow, worse than my mother buy it just to have it, way to go MS.
this transaction, should go in the books as the most usless transaction ever made.
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3. February 2008 @ 16:21 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
Why,How does this benifet MS. Wow, worse than my mother buy it just to have it, way to go MS.
this transaction, should go in the books as the most usless transaction ever made.
MS is expanding their internet portfolio, Yahoo has A LOT of net shops(well the shops use their checkout systems or web suits), you'd be surprised at what all yahoo is into.
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3. February 2008 @ 16:50 |
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but just the puchase of Yahoo does not entitle them to the third party shops under yahoo name. besides all yahoo is NOW is a bloated search engine. i remember when it was like text based search no pics just Unicode results.
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3. February 2008 @ 16:57 |
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Originally posted by DXR88:
but just the puchase of Yahoo does not entitle them to the third party shops under yahoo name. besides all yahoo is NOW is a bloated search engine. i remember when it was like text based search no pics just Unicode results.
No no no you misunderstand me it gives them access to yahoos revenue and the areas yahoo has expanded into they are sheering up their internet portfolio while they can, because google is not stopping to take a breather.
But this move is kinda like AOL buying netscpae or ICQ,its a seemingly empty maneuver that just expands them into thos fields more..
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3. February 2008 @ 17:02 |
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I find your lack of faith Disturbing,ZippyDSM
Thanks for the clarefiction ZippyDSM
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