Partial List: Microsoft’s Nominees For The Yahoo Board

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1. /pd
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:10 am

   They can Propose.. but God will dispose.. I don’t think that the shareholder will accept outside nominations so easily..

2. BA
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:12 am

   These people won’t be receiving a cmas card from Jerry

3. Jeff O'Hara
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am

   I hope this blows up in MS’s face.

4. Smaran
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am

   Now that the EU has approved Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, it’s disturbingly likely that Microsoft will in fact acquire Yahoo. None of the members of this Flickr group (me included) are happy about it.

5. Rohit
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:21 am

   I really hope MS gets Yahoo. Its high time Google faces some serious competition. I think left uncheck Google will be a bigger problem than MS ever was and people who have get emotionally involved with these corporate name should get their head checked.
   MS and yahoo merger is good for all. In case it does not happen yahoo will wither away sooner or later.

6. Alex Hammer
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:24 am

   Good fact gathering. Will be interested to see comments and follow-ups to see (analyze) what this means.

7. Et
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:56 am

   @5 Actually, I feel that MS acquiring Yahoo doesn’t deal with the problem of Google becoming to big. It just creates a second giant monster. Mothrasoft vs Googlezilla is never good for the poor people of Tokyo.

8. dcny
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 10:58 am

   Would all of yall stop saying its a merger there is no way in hell this will be a merger it will be an acquisition; the two companies are not equal so no merger its an acquisition. Will the company be called MicorsoftYahoo, Microhoo, or whatever else you can think of hell no it will be Microsoft Corp.

   Difference between a merger and a acquisition

   When one company takes over another and clearly established itself as the new owner, the purchase is called an acquisition. From a legal point of view, the target company ceases to exist, the buyer “swallows” the business and the buyer’s stock continues to be traded.

   In the pure sense of the term, a merger happens when two firms, often of about the same size, agree to go forward as a single new company rather than remain separately owned and operated. This kind of action is more precisely referred to as a “merger of equals.” Both companies’ stocks are surrendered and new company stock is issued in its place. For example, both Daimler-Benz and Chrysler ceased to exist when the two firms merged, and a new company, DaimlerChrysler, was created.

   In practice, however, actual mergers of equals don’t happen very often. Usually, one company will buy another and, as part of the deal’s terms, simply allow the acquired firm to proclaim that the action is a merger of equals, even if it’s technically an acquisition. Being bought out often carries negative connotations, therefore, by describing the deal as a merger, deal makers and top managers try to make the takeover more palatable.

   A purchase deal will also be called a merger when both CEOs agree that joining together is in the best interest of both of their companies. But when the deal is unfriendly - that is, when the target company does not want to be purchased - it is always regarded as an acquisition.

   Whether a purchase is considered a merger or an acquisition really depends on whether the purchase is friendly or hostile and how it is announced. In other words, the real difference lies in how the purchase is communicated to and received by the target company’s board of directors, employees and shareholders.

9. Olubi Ezra
   

   March 13th, 2008 at 11:53 am

   @8. who was arguing with you BTW?

10. Vijay Chakravarthy
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    What most people dont know is that the board was chosen based on careful matching on 29 different dimensions of compatibility.

11. browse
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    lol 10

12. sm
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Jaynie Studenmund was CEO of eHarmony for a very short time. Perhaps more intriguing - she was the former COO of Overture when it was purchased by Yahoo.

13. Jonathan Jiang
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

    YHOO’s management:
    Denial: The initial stage: “It can’t be happening.”
    Anger: “Why me? It’s not fair.”
    Bargaining: “Just let me live to see my children graduate.”
    Depression: “I’m so sad, why bother with anything?”
    Acceptance: “It’s going to be OK.”

    From http://blogs.barrons.com/techt.....ws_barrons

    Not necessarily saying I agree with the barrons blog post, but how long is YHOO’s stock going to stay artificially high? Don’t forget, before the announcement from msft yahoo’s price was at bottom low 19’s for a whole day. You can see for yourself here at http://finance.google.com/finance?q=YHOO

    But seriously, I’ve ran out of popcorn and moved on to the pepto — this is getting painful to watch.

14. Fred Clemson
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    yeah, well everyone can speculate until eternity. but we can start through a process of elimination. for one, we now can firmly elimininate that totally spurious rumor that news corp would swoop in. totally wrong. rupert M. shot that one down in public earlier in the week

15. Michelle Greer
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    I don’t think Microsoft swallowing Yahoo is the answer for competition to Google. Can Microsoft innovate at the same pace Google does? Have they ever done anything in the search engine game but follow Google’s footsteps since day 1? I don’t think we’ll see Microsoft do any damage to Google’s armor with Yahoo. They have too many irons in the fire to keep up.

16. JosefVirek
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    @14

    “…Can Microsoft innovate at the same pace Google does? Have they ever done anything in the search engine game but follow Google’s footsteps since day 1? I don’t think we’ll see Microsoft do any damage to Google’s armor with Yahoo. They have too many irons in the fire to keep up….”

    Sounds alot like some of the famous last words of an ex-MS competitor

17. Paul
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    Anyone else know anything about these proposed board members? (Thanks @12)

18. Marzipan from Toledo
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I’m guessing the first thing out of the mouths of some of these people who you are “trying to reach for comment” is, who or what in the H is TechCrunch

19. Goober
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    @14 & 15:
    What exactly has Google innovated in the past 2 years? Buying Doubleclick? Buying Youtube? Not all that “innovative”. Opensocial? Hmm, not so much. Android? Not gonna gain any traction given the open requirement of mobile. Plus everyone is creating these developer platforms. P.S. Look at Google results vs. 5 years ago. Same damn page. A laundry list of blue hyperlinks. Yes, Google is a great company and is loaded. But I really don”t get this misperception that its overly innovative. With 17,000 employees they should have innovated a hell of a lot more than they have.

20. www.fantasysportsmatrix.com
    

    March 13th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    It’s going to be one complicated merger/acquisition…

21. Anon
    

    March 14th, 2008 at 12:37 am

    @19:

    “P.S. Look at Google results vs. 5 years ago. Same damn page. A laundry list of blue hyperlinks. ”

    Microsoft didn’t even come out with a new desktop OS for 5 years… and when they finally did, it sucked so much that people want to move back to the old one.

    “With 17,000 employees they should have innovated a hell of a lot more than they have.”

    MS have what … 80,000 employees? You’d think they would innovated a hell of a lot more.

    The fact is, it is difficult to quantify innovation. Both MS and Google are great companies and they have a lot of innovation going on. Looking at a few (maybe unsuccessful) products and claiming failure of innovation is unfair, especially as the company grows larger.

22. I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog
    

    March 14th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    @8: Why don’t we just merge the terms? Or have one acquired if you prefer?

    From now on, the Microsoft/Yahoo deal is to be referred to as a “mergition” or an “acquerger”. Actually that last one sounds like a mental disorder, stick with mergition.

23. Goober
    

    March 14th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    @21, agree: MSFT hasn’t been an innovation engine either. Not standing up for them by any means. Just suggesting that the “company x can’t keep up with Google’s innovation” is really quite baseless.

24. Please Explain
    

    March 14th, 2008 at 9:27 am

    Can someone (Mike Arrington, lawyer) please explain how Microsoft (a competitor) can put their own people on Yahoo’s Board of Directors????

    that makes no sense.

    please elaborate how this can be legally done.

    What’s stopping Burger King from doing the same to McDonald’s? Or Nike with Reebok? etc.

25. DJCarbon43
    

    March 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    Haha,
    vwag just stole the whole content of this post, without even a mention of getting it all here….I just helped clarify for their readership in the comments…

    http://valleywag.com/367863/me.....ahoo-board

26. Riley
    

    March 16th, 2008 at 4:36 am

    I think MS should go to hell. Yahoo is great right now and does not need MS to mess everything up. MS is not as great as they think they are.

27. Will
    

    March 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pm

    I still want dos back.

28. Jackson
    

    March 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    Seriously I hope the government will reconsider breaking up Microsoft into a billion different companies. They are a monopoly. They have broken the law. The entire board belongs in prison. Period. End of Story.

29. Floroskop
    

    March 17th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Hello!
    I think this try.

30. Madolinerd
    

    March 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    nice work, bro

31. DamionKutaeff
    

    March 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm

    Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
    and wish to assit as far as possible.

32. Metrujectiktus
    

    March 28th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    Приветствую всех!
    У меня такой вопрос,кто что интересное подскажет буду признателен.
    Мы с друзьями собираемся поехать в круиз по просторам России и ближнего зарубежья месяца на два на своих машинах,но не как не можем согласовать маршрут,если у кого уже был опыт такого путешествия,может,что посоветуете.Девчонок с собой не берем,думаем,что во все городах России с этим не будет проблем,если у кого будут рекомендации и в вопросе отдыха с девушками тоже буду признателен.

    С уважением Сеньчик