Comments on: Microsoft May Cancel Yahoo Bid: Rumors

By: charles hopkins

charles hopkins — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:56 +0000

i dot’t like yahoo it slow down my pc it download on my pc and i can get back off why ido not like it at all

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» Microsoft May Yank its Offer to Yahoo! Ask BINC : The BINC Blog: Ask BINC — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:08:14 +0000

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By: prophet

prophet — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:33:04 +0000

Congratulations to techcrunch for adding the word “rumors” in the title. Sometimes we read catchy headers but vacuum content. It´s nice to see ethical behaviour in journalism.

By: JavaGuy

JavaGuy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:11:16 +0000

Personally I think its better for both companies if the merger doesn’t go through. Microsoft would’ve wasted all its energy and time on integrated, merging or dissolving various overlapping properties that Yahoo and Microsoft have. If the merge does go through it will be AOL- Time Warner all over again.

The deal only appeals to douchebag Wall Street types who don’t get tech and for some reason steve balmer(who also isn’t a engineer). A great way to throw away your engineering talent is to make them all integrate different properties that do the same thing.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:36:20 +0000

Redmond will simply pull it’s deal and start buying the stock at a much lower price, they will become the majority shareholders and get what they want anyway without overpaying which is what the would be doing now.

By: NickeyD

NickeyD — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:42:05 +0000

Now I finally understand why Yahoo fell behind. Facts of life.

By: CARversation.com

CARversation.com — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:43:26 +0000

yahoo sux

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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:05:47 +0000

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By: Steve Nimmons

Steve Nimmons — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:55:39 +0000

There has been quite a number of news stories in the past quarter, many originated by Yahoo. The ‘right amount of resistance’ I would interpret as part of the bargaining ritual. Industry consolidation is so much in vogue and with esurient shareholders abound I still feel this one will close in Microsoft’s ‘favour’.

By: GetOffYourHighHorse

GetOffYourHighHorse — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:28:17 +0000

I also concur with Paul. Techies are disillusioned in that they believe they represent the majority.
Yahoo! doesn’t pull in Google-like $, but they are still a highly profitable company.
Certainly more profitable than any of the tech flavors-of-month that never make a dime and likely never will.

@Wade: Greedy shareholders are the reason MS and Y! stocks are down in the first place. They both make a lot of money, but wall st. and techies are too busy hopping on bandwagons.

By: Microsoft And Yahoo’s $40 Billion Game Of Media Chicken

Microsoft And Yahoo’s $40 Billion Game Of Media Chicken — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:49 +0000

[...] of reports today on the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations, which is now in its third month of drama and appears to [...]

By: Sunil

Sunil — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:53:22 +0000

Good for both to run their business separately.

http://feedshub.blogspot.com

By: Afraid of the dark

Afraid of the dark — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:49:04 +0000

@21 … with customers like you, who needs Microsoft

By: momoy

momoy — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:06:50 +0000

about time… MS would be doing everyone else a favor for rejecting the bid. at first i was very much into them to getting yahoo to help it grow, but now that i see crazy fanbois defend yahoo from “evil” ive changed my mind. hope you guys have a fun fall to nothingness…

geez, i dont understand these people. and if you guys want to transfer to google, have fun with the bigger devil! wherein they know you’re entire lives and data…

and oh paul, i totally agree with you.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:45:43 +0000

Paul is absolutely right. Google PR is in fast forwards trying to make out that people would leave yahoo if microsoft bought it.

Nonsense, Yahoo as a portal will always dominate the net , people prefer a onestop hub that traversing all over the Net for all their stuff. Only if yahoo could get their search product right and the would own the net.

By: Wade

Wade — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:51:02 +0000

I hope the deal gets canceled and Yahoo tanks. I hate greedy shareholders.

By: Compaholic

Compaholic — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:24:58 +0000

Microsoft is finally waking up. Now maybe they should focus more on their Google competitor by getting into bed with eBay and making an offer for Skype before Google does.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 03:15:46 +0000

I would like to know what all the hostility is all about. Yahoo has always had more traffic than any other site. This is like the Michael Jackson of the 1980’s. He sells millions of albums but you cannot find one person that will admit to liking him back then. Just like now when everyone uses Yahoo but no one will admit it. Other than search, their traffic dwarfs Google. Yahoo has so many more things to do than Google does despite the fact that no one will admit it. It is this reason that I go out of my way to not use Google because there are so many followers that cannot even see straight. The only reason Yahoo suffers is because of this followership that people in the tech community participate in. You have Digg, Twit, slash dot, and sites like this all say the same thing. Google is god, Apple is god, Linux rocks, Firefox is the best, and Microsoft is the devil. Other than Google dominating search, all of these go contrary to the numbers of people using them. Firefox is only about 10 to 15%, Apple is less than that, Linux is even less. Everyone bashes Microsoft but 90% of the people use their products. If you want to have some sense of quality, ignore anyone who talks about tech all day because it is group speak. I have found that if you watch what people do rather than listen to what they say, you will be much better off.

By: Michael Bakovic

Michael Bakovic — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:23:53 +0000

I hope they do cancel the bid.

By: Lawrence Salberg

Lawrence Salberg — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:20:30 +0000

Would Microsoft just “get a grip”. I’ve already moved some of my Yahoo services to Google just to be prepared.

If M/S buys Yahoo, they’ll be a mass exodus from Yahoo the likes of which the net has never seen. No netizen with any smarts will stay with Yahoo and let their personal data be used by Microsoft to spam us into their lousy web services and off-the-shelf products.

I’m no Anti-Microsoftie (as evidenced in my blog), but the very idea that they think they can buy a web-only company like Yahoo and do ANYTHING beneficial for us, them, or Yahoo itself, has got to be THE joke of 2008.

Would you buy a Microsoft car? Would you buy a Microsoft high-rise? I think we’ll all wait for them to figure out their own products, but have issues (like Vista, Office, and their nutty table touch screen). They must be clueless. Who, exactly who, on the internet is pushing the idea of this (besides some toadie spec investors (who are also clueless)). Everyone I’ve read ranges from wary to downright outraged at the idea.

If they buy Yahoo, they’ll be left holding a shell of freebie Yahoo dial-up users by the end of 2009. And Google will be reaping all the benefits.

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By: Jollyjo

Jollyjo — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:37:22 +0000

I would too. Yahoo clearly don’t understand the concept of 100% of nothing.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:11:29 +0000

Microsoft should just wait till yahoo bombs and then scoup them up at a fire sale price. Then Microsoft should buy the Gigablast search engine for a couple of mil and they would be number 1 .

Yahoo portal would get them the audience share, whilst the Gigablast search engine would provide the quality in search results people want.