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Re: HUGE: Microsoft Wants To Acquire Yahoo For $44.6 Billion

DansMuayThaiMMA — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:29:38 -0000

Wow, this is huge. I wonder if this is going to be transparent to the users or if we will see noticable changes.

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perde — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:01:53 -0000

I think this is the biggest news of the year.

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Suz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:27:02 -0000

Hi everyone!
Iâ€™m doing a project on the Yahoo-Microsoft merger and have a few questions for somebody who has been following and understands this potential merge. If youâ€™re willing to help, please let me know!
Thank you!

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Suz — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:24:12 -0000

Hi everyone,

I'm doing a project on this merger and have a few questions for somebody who has been following and understands this merger. If you're willing to help, please let me know!
Thank you.

Suz

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evan108108 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:04:04 -0000

This is not good news for 'users,webmasters and Advertisers'. You must be crazy. You are removing a completer and creating a giant that can bully "users,webmasters and Advertisers" into high costs.

This would be a bad deal for everyone except Microsoft and the Yahoo shareholders.

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Anuj — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:04:42 -0000

This is a great news for users,webmasters and Advertisers (but not for Google)
The WWW will be surely more competitive again....
The search will get better...
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Re: HUGE: Microsoft Wants To Acquire Yahoo For $44.6 Billion

Phil — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:54:39 -0000

I suspect the answer is a combination of both companies services. Yahoo have been doing a lot of innovating recently and I can see microsoft taking advantage of that.

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CountRob — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:51:18 -0000

Damn Wordpress ate my comment.

This merger happens right after Microsoft was complaining about Google's acquisition of DoubleClick. Typical MS pot calling kettle black.

Google is not going to lose market share over this. If Yahoo is rebranded as an MS product, it will only help google.

So I guess that means all their assets such as flickr and Delicious are now belong to Microsoft.

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whazzzz up? — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:30:48 -0000

My thoughts exactly!

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Lizi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:09:25 -0000

So many questions:

Live search or Yahoo search?
Live messenger or Yahoo messenger?
Live spaces , Yahoo 360 or Facebook???
MSN Dating (Match) or Yahoo personal?
MSN advertising platform or Yahoo advertising platform?
.net or java?
Live ID or Open ID?

...

Re: HUGE: Microsoft Wants To Acquire Yahoo For $44.6 Billion

goodcookn1310 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:27:57 -0000

NO way! MSN hasn't been good since 1995. this sounds like MS is more woried about Google and wants to cover its butt.

funny how there is no mention of how this will be good for the users. it great that a bunch of rich guys get even richer but that isn't going to make me want to use hotmail over yahoo.

some one point out on engadget that (quoting)

"Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition...."

So, instead, they want to dominate by consolidating through acquisition. Isn't that what they are fighting against!

Hello Kettle, I'm Pot.

Re: HUGE: Microsoft Wants To Acquire Yahoo For $44.6 Billion

oswaldo2025 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:56:02 -0000

I can't see a bad future, again a monopoly. Please Yahoo can be better, I don't want more advertising like hotmail banners and space limitated or selling us it, if microsoft take yahoo, google can be the winner, cause microsoft don't let to use software libre, google won with free applications for desktop. Microsoft... go to the kitchen!

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Curt Monash — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:34:46 -0000

This deal makes a ton of sense. The technological synergies are a lot greater than some folks realize, specifically in areas like structured search and search/BI integration that FAST brings into the mix.

CAM

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coxy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:39:46 -0000

Oh noes! I'd forgotten about this. Heh.

I would like to see a serious competitor to Google, and I think Yahoo! could do this with more money thrown at it - Microsoft could be the people to provide this.

I wouldn't like to see a Yahoo! rebrand or for any of it's services to be spoilt by Micrsoft - but if it were a case of ownership, cash inflow, revenue - I'd be quite happy.

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Searchâ—Š Engines Web — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:39:01 -0000

What did you expect when the company announced 1,000 layoffs and the CEO had to resign.

Balmer seized the perfect opportunity to get in

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sportsmedicinern — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:20:57 -0000

WHOLLY CRAP!

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phil — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:06:31 -0000

Well it was only a matter of when not if. Will this help the openID cause?