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Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Mossill — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:10:19 -0000

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"

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Marguerite Jasmin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:57:45 -0000

Google is evil

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Saad Kamal — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:46:44 -0000

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!

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Paul Glazowski — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:09:36 -0000

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 :-)

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Ã˜rv — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:18:03 -0000

Fantastic read,

If they proceed to sale, this can turn out to be EPIC.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Jim Eltringham — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:13:08 -0000

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.

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Dave Olverson — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:06:30 -0000

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.

Re: The Final Chapter: Yahoo Now Wants to Be Acquired by Microsoft

Ninja — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:01:38 -0000

"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.