Comments on: Yahoo Makes Its Case in Letter to Shareholders

By: Breakting the reality distortion field — Justin Gibbs

Breakting the reality distortion field — Justin Gibbs — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:38:57 +0000

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By: Microhoo, Strategic or Panic « meetKendall.com

Microhoo, Strategic or Panic « meetKendall.com — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:29:22 +0000

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By: got yahooed

got yahooed — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:01:51 +0000

One of their latest scam is even though you have transferred your domain else where, they still take your money for renewal from the card on file. I got scammed by them, er yahooed. It does not even make me laugh when they think they are worth more, anyway!

By: Fake Jerry

Fake Jerry — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:31:21 +0000

This letter is just to pacify Microsoft..
Sure, we will sell yahoo to them.( we just need a little more).
And with the money, the best guys from yahoo , we will start a new search engine.
Google is becoming too heavy and they will loose the wind.
Steve Balmer will be to busy with Windows 2011
In 3 years Yahoo2 ( we don t have a name yet) will be the 3rd seach engine on the planet.
and in 10 years we will make an unsollicited offer to Microsoft

By: stupid shareholders

stupid shareholders — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:47:44 +0000

All you alleged “shareholders” that are pushing for the sale… Why not sell right now if you hate Yahoo so much? The stock price has already realized the value of Microsoft’s offer. Vote with your shares – seriously.

This letter is a statement of what Yahoo is and is trying to become. If you don’t believe – again – vote with your shares. If you don’t have shares, just tell the people you know to do so, and stop vommiting all over these boards.

I for one am interested in what they are trying to do, and want to see what comes next. I agree with some other comments that it’s going to take a really fundamental change in how they do business to pull it off, but this is just the sort of pressure that can force a fundamental change.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:23:25 +0000

Yahoo is great company. I realy admired to see their growth in the internet. Only problem is Google has grown very fast then Yahoo is considered as very slow. Even compare to MS Yahoo has good record on online sales and good startegic. Still Yahoo is the leader in Asia for Mobile browsing sites. I am Google Fan, But I respect Yahoo being innovative company. They are Jolted, will bounce back soon.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:37:59 +0000

Folks, lots of things can change in 5 years. Look at how far Facebook has come in 4 years. If Google maintains its current level of idiocy mixed with poorly conceived spending initiatives, I can easily envision bankruptcy in 5 years for them.

Who is to say any advertisers will even want to advertise there in 5 years. Their audience may very well be gone.

By: Eric Atkins

Eric Atkins — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:50:53 +0000

Microsoft has made the XBOX 360 profitable. That was a feat – even with its failure rate. Regardless of what you think about Microsoft’s business practices, they know how to turn a profit.

They’ll probably buy Yahoo!, turn it into some kind of product that we (the readers of technology websites) won’t like (do we use Y! right now anyway), and figure out a way to turn a nice profit.

By: Blowski

Blowski — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:12:00 +0000

Zeke: and execution is the hard part. You only need to look through these comments to see how easy it is to come up with ideas. But how many of these mini-CEOs are either able or can be bothered to convert those ideas into working, profitable businesses?

By: Jenkins

Jenkins — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:09:09 +0000

Their publisher network has been decimated by Google and even Quigo. Yahoo is a joke these days and should really sell. I agree that the marketplace needs a counterbalance to Google but Yahoo isn’t qualified to be that company.

By: anish

anish — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:17:20 +0000

Yahoo should have agreed to the microsoft offer.

There has to be a viable alternative to the google empire. They have started to become a dictator.

ani

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:56:27 +0000

Microsoft is profitable not only in Office and Windows but in XBOX also now.
That said they know how to run business.
Yahoo is losing out to google and the time it takes to restructure everything will be probably too late to gain any market share.
They think they have the time but they really don’t
in absolute terms google has the largest momentum.
Yahoo folded on their 360 which means that don’t have the stuff to put a social platform together. their email is very good i use it but it has some flaws like the search feature and some other things… they need to become a really new kind of company. not just restructuring.

By: Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:21:58 +0000

Hi,
Is Valleywag better or techcrunch? I think VW..since it has all the racy news..TC is for only 60 year old ppl
Jerry

By: Affiliate Marketing Forum

Affiliate Marketing Forum — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:53:11 +0000

Should Yahoo sell out?…

I’m sure you’ve all heard about Microsoft and Newscorp’s bid for Yahoo. What do you think?……

By: Red devil

Red devil — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:59:21 +0000

@25
thanks msft employee we all know how much u guys love ur company

By: Gordon Gekko

Gordon Gekko — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:24:01 +0000

@24

if you can use google to find a problem to your linux issue with relative ease, i’m sure you can manage to use it to find information on investing, right?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:14:25 +0000

If Yahoo is really going to continue, and this isn’t a message to MS, I’m proud of them. If I were a stockholder I may have a completely different outlook, but don’t insult Jerry for not wanting to give up.

That would be like the most visited store in a mall selling out to a construction company.

Microsoft blows at developing just about anything. The only reason Windows is the most used operating system is because they offer “support” and made deals with major computer manufacturers. Microsoft just wants to own the most used operating system in the world, and the one of the (if not THE) most visited website. I don’t care what Y! plans on doing, as long as it doesn’t kill one of the (what I like to call) “fathers” of the internet.

Off topic:
Whenever I have a problem in linux, I google for a solution and I find it relatively quick. However with Microsoft’s “support”, you can be waiting on hold for several hours, or days to solve an issue that wouldn’t exist if they actually developed decent software.

PS. I am interested in learning more about investing/buying stock. Can anyone provide me with links that I can learn more about this subject?

By: Rodster

Rodster — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:53:56 +0000

I really know in detail only about the online ad business of Yahoo.

Their effort has been half hearted (no intl focus, targeting so and so, lack of incentives to pull advertisers etc) in that market even though Google keeps increasing shareholder value with their innovations.

Microsoft has been worse, though.

However, MS is paying a hefty premium for the Yahoo stock, so most shareholders will vote to sell, I’m sure.

By: Technology Slice

Technology Slice — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:45:38 +0000

They will give in eventually and accept Microsoft’s offer.

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:40:59 +0000

@Blowski, of course these are same old ideas (I would rather say goals), the key is how to execute them. If yang can lead yahoo to successfully execute these strategies, I would say yahoo will come back.

By: Chris Banach

Chris Banach — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:31:30 +0000

jerry reminds me of George Bush with the war in Irak …

By: Exchange3D

Exchange3D — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:21:39 +0000

Yahooligan – it is up, because everyone is sure that MS will pursue

By: Dekut.com

Dekut.com — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:11:04 +0000

Yahoo Makes Its Case in Letter to Shareholders…

Yahoo has just released the following letter to shareholders outlining its reasoning for rejecting Microsoft’s offer to buy the company. In it, CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang emphasizes Yahoo’s strengths as both an online destination and an advertis…

By: Blowski

Blowski — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:08:39 +0000

@12 Zeke: It’s not that unrealistic to hope that, within 8 months, there would be some visible change in policy which led investors to say positive things about what’s going on at Yahoo!.

All I’ve seen coming out of there is same old (failing) ideas. This is why people are leaving, and the stock price has plummeted.

That said, the way the letter is clearly addressed to Microsoft makes it look like “More cash please”.

By: BubbleHead

BubbleHead — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:07:50 +0000

Folks, lots of things can change in 5 years. Look at how far Google has come in 5 years. If Yahoo maintains its current level of idiocy mixed with poorly conceived spending initiatives, I can easily envision bankruptcy in 5 years for them.

Who is to say any advertisers will even want to advertise there in 5 years. Their audience may very well be gone.