Comments on: We’re Sorting Through Some Crazy Google/Yahoo Rumors

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By: Partial List: Microsoft’s Nominees For The Yahoo Board

Partial List: Microsoft’s Nominees For The Yahoo Board — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:05:55 +0000

[...] deadline to propose board members originally was tomorrow. However, a recent delaying tactic by Yahoo pushed that date forward by a month or so. Everything [...]

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:53:33 +0000

[...] “would rather fight a fragmented market than a single, stronger, Microsoft/Yahoo.” (http://www.tech...eyahoo-rumors [...]

By: Yahoo Is Still Looking For A White Knight—News Corp.’s Offer Does Not Pencil Out, Neither Does AOL’s

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:45:34 +0000

[...] mother has looked at ways to scuttle Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo: News Corp., AOL, Google, hedge funds. Even Barry Diller sniffed around (according to two sources), as did British Telecom [...]

By: Neek

Neek — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:34:15 +0000

Dream on. All this BS is fun to watch, but there’s no stopping MS. Besides, are Yahoo really that stupid to substitute MS for Google, just to keep Microsoft’s hands from the company?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:28:37 +0000

The more actions Google takes on the Microhoo deal, the more I believe a merged Microhoo is good for competition.

Google is no better than Microsoft in terms of monopoloy attitude. I won’t cheer for Google one day, and when all his competitors died, I found I have no choice but just use Google. That scares me.

By: paisley

paisley — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:18:40 +0000

then yahoo! can bring back Google search.. lmao

By: Tim Cohn

Tim Cohn — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:02:24 +0000

Too bad IBM is spending $15 billion on their own stock.

By: Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:15:00 +0000

I’ll learn to work the saxaphone
I play just what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
And die behind the wheel
They got a name for the winners in the world
And I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
Call me Deacon Blues

By: chush.net

chush.net — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:08:30 +0000

20% to NewsCorp, 20% to Google, 60% to private equity and Yahoo is private.

By: Tippo

Tippo — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:08:02 +0000

I think these rumours are going to continue for some time. But as long as they continue I think its good for Yahoo!

By: Faramarz

Faramarz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:05:14 +0000

I don’t read Hebrew. that last link is useless

By: MotownStyle

MotownStyle — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:25:58 +0000

Sorry, blogspot not down anymore… I am so ashamed to have been fear-mongering.

By: MotownStyle

MotownStyle — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:10:23 +0000

I used to work for George Boutros – he is a pitbull (”hey, dickhead!” – is a common term of affection for him) and if Google wants it, he will execute their bidding very aggressively.

Speaking of Google – blogspot and blogger appear to be down. Anything interesting there, Michael?

By: JosefVirek

JosefVirek — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:10:15 +0000

Even Google is no match against Microsoft.

By: bs

bs — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:40:49 +0000

this is fun to watch

By: embassy suites flagstaff

embassy suites flagstaff — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:26:45 +0000

wow this is big fight of big guys.
Yes no one wants yahoo to go to microsoft but how will google’s shares respond if google buys 20 percent of yahoo? this definitely is a game to watch:)

By: Pandrogas

Pandrogas — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:23:37 +0000

Meanwhile, several more shareholders in Yahoo have announced lawsuits based on this breaking news.

It’s going to be interesting to see how this goes on from here. Yahoo ultimately is just getting the crap kicked out of it by these two giants, so Google might just be able to sit back and start hiring more Yahoo refugees as time goes on just to spite Microsoft as well (course, that could be vice-versa).

I would however go as far to say that it might be a good time for that search engine advertising helper / social networking thingamajig startup seeing as they seem to be getting acquired at blazing speed while this deal is in limbo.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:16:42 +0000

LOL, now there is a crunchbase for people. Michael, crunchbase will never catch on. Nice article though and no offense meant.

By: Affiliate Expert

Affiliate Expert — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:13:28 +0000

Not sure this would be a good idea for Google. Yahoo couldnt prove to its share holder its valued at 19 bucks until MSFT had the hostile bid for 31 to boost the stock up by more than 60%. Turning down that generous offering was their biggest mistake. I doubt Google would be interested in taking over yahoo to bail them out.

By: Jenkins

Jenkins — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:12:33 +0000

Let’s face the facts here. All this points to a higher ultimate purchase price for Yahoo.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:10:29 +0000

…..”fight a fragmented market than a single, stronger, Microsoft/Yahoo”…

Very nicely worded. Remember in the late 90’s when Apple almost went of of business (low on cash). Who injected them with an *investment* of $200M (figure correct?) Good ol Microsoft did.
That investment was peanuts because it allowed MSFT to continue to eat up all the OS revenues while keeping Apple on life support!

So if Google can invest $x and keep Yahoo as a stand alone it can continue to treat it like a red headed step child and still bitch slap it on a QtoQ revenue basis while still having a large player competing. BRILLIANT!

God bless America.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:05:02 +0000

Is this considered a merge rather than a buyout?

Sam
http://topmusic.fm

By: Veronica Alvarez

Veronica Alvarez — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:56:59 +0000

wow! this is really interesting, if any it just really buys Yahoo! more time to come up with a “how to survive on their own” strategy.

you have to wonder though what will happen to Y!’s stock comes Q1 earnings, with most likely no real answer on a potential MSFT takeover…

as always, I just keep rooting for Y!, whatever it takes!

By: BrickandClick

BrickandClick — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:55:53 +0000

Whichever way the M&A ball bounces … it’ll be a nice boost to the market to see some of the billions in company cash these big boys have shelved, come off the shelf and come out to play. Boo-ya!