Comments on: Yahoo Responds: “The distraction of Microsoft’s unsolicited proposal now behind us”

By: XMLRPC Test » GR Shared Link - Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo?

XMLRPC Test » GR Shared Link - Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo? — Mon, 19 May 2008 04:12:44 +0000

[...] on power began to weaken. What happened next was curious. In Yahoo’s official press release on May 3 responding to Microsoft’s termination of negotiations, it was Bostock who issued the primary [...]

By: Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo?

Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo? — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:54:39 +0000

[...] power began to weaken. What happened next was curious. In Yahoo’s official press release on May 3 responding to Microsoft’s termination of negotiations, it was Bostock who issued the primary [...]

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By: rvb1977

rvb1977 — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:55:09 +0000

“Behind us!!!!” So they can do what? Accelerate their dramatic slide to irrelevance? Hey, Jerry, you just lost another 3% share in China, or do you not care?

By: Microsoft retracts bid for Yahoo! | Online Marketing Performance

Microsoft retracts bid for Yahoo! | Online Marketing Performance — Mon, 05 May 2008 06:27:10 +0000

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By: Captain

Captain — Mon, 05 May 2008 01:15:29 +0000

Yahoo thinks it has just cut of it’s nose to spite it’s face. Pride or ego.

MS has pulled a classic take over trick here. Dangle a big fat carrot and watch the shareholders and media now do the nasty work for them.

For anyone other than “founders” its just about making money, which for the morons means

money take out > money put in = good
money put in > money take out = bad

By: dling

dling — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:30:31 +0000

To Jerry,

Portal(old) = Social media site. Only different name.

Only way to Monatize social sites is go Vertical.

Google does not have the properties you already have and they have’nt figure out how to crack the social scene.

Yes, I believe you are undervalued, only if you can montasize your great properties.

Last but not least, get yourself a great CEO and let the dirty work necesary of whipping your disfuctional groups into a coherent force. Frankly, you are just too nice.

By: Diogo Peixoto

Diogo Peixoto — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:15:49 +0000

So what’s next? Maybe, Yoogle!

By: jro

jro — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:14:43 +0000

One week from now, the MS proposal is going to look like a dream vacation compared to what the future holds — shareholder lawsuits, getting totally hosed by Google in the advertising deal, getting more proposals from private equity groups. Stranger things have happened than MS coming around later on and being a “white knight”.

By: JiveGuru » Blog Archive » Apple Siting on the Sidelines Ready to Pounce on Yahoo! Deal?

Sun, 04 May 2008 19:53:56 +0000

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By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:02:05 +0000

“Go Yahoo! go!!”

Oh they’re going alright…

By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:59:18 +0000

Go Yahoo! go!!

By: 2RichContent

2RichContent — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:52:03 +0000

This blog is pathetic in content and quality.
Microsoft is an disgrace to the USA and to IT, business and innovation. Truly a threat to the service economy of the USA.
Putting focus on yahoo is such a passing the buck, burden.
Only in a banana republic, does such exist, and often such blogs like these, with little REAL content, analysis, etc.
Have fun.
bub bye.

By: jddavis

jddavis — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:13:03 +0000

The CEO of the company needs to get fired. Ballmer that is. Everything about how this deal was offered and executed was ridiculous. Did Murdoch raise his price by $2 per share on the Dow Jones deal…the Bancroft family was even more antagonistic than Yahoo was. But Murdoch knew how to work his magic. This Ballmer guy seems to be a big, blumbering fool. If something you really wanted is worth $30, it’s also probably worth $40, otherwise why do it. Why nickel and dime on $2, $4…seriously…if the acquisition benefits are not worth another $4, it’s probably not worth the initial $31 to your company. The lesson here is offer what you can upfront, don’t nickel-and-dime or ever move on that price, and apply intense, white-heat PR pressure…MSFT let YHOO take 4 months. That’s crazy.

For all the talk about Yang, people need to realize that MSFT has been flat since 2004. YHOO’s stock has more than doubled since 2004. What has Ballmer done to adapt his company to the new era of computing in the 2000s. Nothing. I still don’t have Vista and wouldn’t mind an entirely browser-based system. This is where it is headed. No one cares for operating systems or desktop software anymore…will you be using MS Word 5 years from now. Is it guaranteed? I don’t know.

The YHOO deal seemed like a company stretching to hit a homerun. Get bigger, get more scale, blah, blah, blah…

MSFT doesn’t have the talent to execute small ideas that get big. Those types of people either join start-ups or work in growth cultures. MSFT is like GE.

They should break up the company into the OS, Gaming, Apps & Web, and smaller units. Assign tracking stocks, give employees in each unit equity in the tracking stock. You cannot innovate with purely-salaried employees.

As far as YHOO is concerned. The arbs own the float.

By: Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:00:00 +0000

and nobody asked what their employees feel ? That stinky management of M$ and use of open tech at yahoo…Why does MS think they gonna have good team ? Or they just want to buy yahoo to get more market share and clients hey have right now ? i don’t think any tech tht yahoo has developed over years are anyways useful to M$. They have almost 60% of overlapping services…which one remains ? What about those ppl who worked for many years to develop great tech for search and other services…their work is in vein ? Just bcos MS wants is propriety tech to be used ?

By: Jigar Shah

Jigar Shah — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:53:34 +0000

It simply rocks..:) party at yahoo..:) Good job yahoo you saved the web…:) Now just release a big Missile and just finish of M$….MS never want to spend anything to innovate and share them. They just don’t want competition. Only motive was to challenge google. If Google makes x you make 10x….Just do that don’t worry if others are doing well. Next time someone uses cell phone to send text or wears a shirt you some Ad there I am very sure your Open Strategy will make more developers and more service providers in…All the best again

By: Sergei

Sergei — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:15:18 +0000

What they are talking about??

Seems they are selling the search to Google… this is value for the company?? maybe in short term some money… Just accept that you have killed Overture like many other companies you bought in the past and left to die without giving them innovation to compete… Nice Idea…better management. Close the GAP in search, Rostock??? Sounds like a Joke.

Keep Panama working and improve it. Show us the Yahoo! innovation that you and Yang are talking about all the time…

By: Word!

Word! — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:37:06 +0000

@ Wen: Exactly! If the shareholders have no faith in Yahoo!, they had ample time to dump it. If they didn’t, its greed or stupidity.

They could’ve folded but waited for the River card.
So they have nobody to blame but themselves. People never learn from Kenny Rogers.

Of course I’m hoping that Yahoo! really can execute and right the ship.

By: Microsoft loopt weg van deal met Yahoo!

Microsoft loopt weg van deal met Yahoo! — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:21:02 +0000

[...] reacties zeggen ze klaar te zijn voor de toekomst en zich nu geen zorgen meer hoeven te maken over de afleiding die Microsoft ze heeft bezorgd. De reorganisatie die Yahoo! achter de rug heeft is geen teken van zwakte (zoals Microsoft gelooft) [...]

By: sam

sam — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:05:11 +0000

umm…. in a word, amazing!!!

to all you guys who are complaining that yahoo should have taken the deal, i’m assuming that you’re also the same ones who were cheering when dell stated that jobs should simply part out apple, and return the money to the shareholders…

of course, this was back in the late 90’s/early 2000s.. oh yeah, that’s right, most of you were probably in high school then!!!

the fact of the issue is that alot of businesses deal with a dynamic cycle, and yahoo has the potential to come back, and who’s to say that something might not happen to google within the next few years.

keep in mind, if you hit google regarding their advertising, then google crashes…

and i don’t believe you have to impact google very much on a percentage basis for their shares to be impacted…

peace..

By: Igor The Troll

Igor The Troll — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:45:50 +0000

Today Yahoo giving Microsoft the Finger, but tomorrow they are set for Romantic Date!

Love is in the Air! -;)

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By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:06:54 +0000

$19….the price of Yahoo’s stock on Monday. Yang is an idiot.

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:06:33 +0000

Yahoo is a joke, dying on the vine. Only Jerry, Sue and their Board are yet to figure it out.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 May 2008 06:01:40 +0000

@Chris Stick with what you know. IIS/.net deployments have worked well for me. Maybe you’ve had a lot of trouble and frustration with it. From my stand point there are merits to both and a lot of it depends on context. I haven’t had integrity issues or vulnerability issues that have caused the IIS to give me problems. Quite Frankly, I find it extremely easy to work with and I like that. Apache is a tried and true work-horse but it’s not the only option on the block. Believe me there are many top corporations whose websites run it successfully. I think there are a lot of opinions out there, this is mine.