Financial crisis in stock markets moved Yahoo to sell to Microsoft.
Dave Olverson
· 1 year ago
I'm not sure it was just the financial crisis. Monetizing its properties should have been a core competency/strategic capability. That Yahoo needed Google to do this didn't inspire a lot of confidence in their turnaround plan.
Ninja
· 1 year ago
"Season changes so do people" ... For yahoo its better to be acquired by microsoft than do wither a lonely and slow death. If new season favored microsoft doesn't mean Ballmer is a good negotiator. And only time will tell if google is real winner or not .. Tech publication has always overestimated them.
Jim Eltringham
· 1 year ago
Actually, they did want to sell earlier, but were asking for smoething like $37/share rather than the $31 or $32 that MicroSoft originally offered. So this is a change of rhetoric, but not much of a change in positioning.
Paul Glazowski
· 1 year ago
Right, they wanted to sell at a price that Microsoft wasn't willing to chomp at. When Microsoft saw the Yahoo stock fall (It's now about $14.50), the asking price was just too high. My question now is, where's the requisite "flip-flop" allusion to today's news? Even though it's quite a bit more complicated than that :-)
Ørv
· 1 year ago
Fantastic read,
If they proceed to sale, this can turn out to be EPIC.
Amazing! Just a while ago they were in the arms of Google...and now after being dumped by them they want to go to Microsoft... Boy yahoo sounds like a big time Hooker!
Marguerite Jasmin
· 1 year ago
Google is evil
Avatarx
· 1 year ago
I remember saying all the way back when Microsoft bid for yahoo that if yahoo resisted be bought they would crumble and that the effect of they not getting bought would send them to a price lower than before the microsoft bid...
Looks who was right again. poor yahoo.
now i really would not buy yahoo if i were microsoft. i would buy Ask and AOL. buying both would cost less than 10 billion and it would add a 8% of search marketshare and would pump up Ad Center with everything AOL and Ask got. i think that would be a better idea right now.
Mossill
· 1 year ago
The reason why Microsoft wants to buy yahoo is to Force it's Silverlight product on the user base. It's obvious. I'm sure they have other uses for the yahoo platform, but I'm telling you this is the ultimate goal.
a year or so ago, Myspace forced all users to upgrade to flash 9.0 in order to get in to the site. It was a very effect move and this is what Microsoft wants to do with "silverlight"
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If they proceed to sale, this can turn out to be EPIC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE9wEvLHeuQ
Looks who was right again. poor yahoo.
now i really would not buy yahoo if i were microsoft. i would buy Ask and AOL. buying both would cost less than 10 billion and it would add a 8% of search marketshare and would pump up Ad Center with everything AOL and Ask got. i think that would be a better idea right now.
a year or so ago, Myspace forced all users to upgrade to flash 9.0 in order to get in to the site. It was a very effect move and this is what Microsoft wants to do with "silverlight"