Microsoft bids $44.6 billion to buy Yahoo

[vegeta1215]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080202/wr_nm/microsoft_dc;_ylt=AmnTOmKCszCq6qWolsMs5VGIzdAF

If this buyout happens, I am going to be really pissed. Thoughts?

[The_Amaster]

*eye twitches*
Mi...cro...SOOOFFFFFFT!!!!!!
*yells to the sky*

Next thing you know they'll have Google. Then Apple. Then the world. They'll be able to charge us amazingly high prices for bad service and crappy computers because we won't have any choice!. Quick, everyone go out and buy Apple or download Linux. We must fight the power!

[phattonez]

Yahoo isn't even my homepage anymore. Ever since they changed their homepage and they highlight worthless news I just switched to the Firefox Start Page.

I mostly use Google for everything that Yahoo ever did.

[Pineconn]

Next thing you know, Microsoft will merge with Wal-Mart. That would be one scary thought. Wal-Soft. Or Micro-Mart.

[DarkDragon]

I hope the deal goes through. Yahoo is worth nowhere near $44.6 billion, and on the decline. Not sure what Microsoft is smoking...

[phattonez]

Next thing you know, Microsoft will merge with Wal-Mart. That would be one scary thought. Wal-Soft. Or Micro-Mart.

Now that would be irony.

[Prrkitty]

Yasoft? Microhoo?

Might it just be a way for Microsoft to spend "GOBS" of money and have a 'write off' - for money spent on a lost cause?

[Aegix Drakan]

...m-m-m-MICROMART?!? MICROHOO?!?!

:rofl:

And I'm quite satisfied with my microsoft stuff. >_> But I DO think they're getting a bit too much power...

[vegeta1215]

Yahoo is worth nowhere near $44.6 billion, and on the decline. Not sure what Microsoft is smoking...

The bid is actually 62% higher than Yahoo's entire stock holdings. Well, it was. I think Yahoo's stock has gone up since the announcement (and Microsoft's has gone down iirc)

It is a move of desperation on Microsoft's part. They want to catch up with Google, but even with Yahoo's part of the search market they're not even close. Me, I don't care about search. I think it's hooey. What I do care about is Yahoo Mail, Flickr, Geocities (there are a lot of businesses that run on Yahoo's web hosting platforms), and everything else they have. If Microsoft thinks this is going to help them, they are wrong. If this deal happens I would move to Google's services over Microsoft's newley aquired Yahoo ones. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

[Breaker]

Next thing you know they'll have Google.


Microsoft can't afford Google.

[Grasshopper]

Did they already try to buy Google once? Google is my primary search engine over Yahoo any day, but I just use Opera's speed dial as my homepage.

[vegeta1215]

Yesssss.... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/technology/09cnd-yahoo.html?_r=1&ex=1360299600&en=0a10211874f4e291&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

[The_Amaster]

*dances a little happy dance*
An thus freedom and the American Way triumph over the corporate forces of Monopoly.
Until the next battle...
*turns his eye towards Wal-Mart on the horizon*

[Russ]

Thank goodness it didn't happen. That would have been catastrophic, or catycalismic, or just really bad. :D Well, I happy it didn't work. Yahoo is my home page, and I do not wan't it taken over by Microsoft.

[Pineconn]

Yahoo’s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid with a letter Monday saying the offer undervalues Yahoo, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday.

Several people argued that the company was worth more than what Microsoft offered, this person said.


:D Humor is good on Saturdays.

[Russ]

Yahoo worth more than 44.6 billion dollars? They really need to crawl out from whatever rock they are hiding under.

[Blisspath]

Yahoo's board needs a gigantic reality check..Microsoft was the only large bidder. They need to take the money and go play golf and meditate on how they screwed up a pretty decent company..speaking of...I need to check and see if Yahoo is part of my index fund:)