Microsoft targets Yahoo! with $44.6bn bid »
Posted By studio 1 year, 9 months ago in Science & TechnologyMicrosoft has tabled a $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo! in biggest internet deal since the dot-com crash.
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GregD1 year, 9 months ago
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Microsoft doesn't seem too concerned with the word "monopoly" now do they? Since I've never been directly affected or involved with takeovers like this, I'm a bit concerned that Microsoft would just run Yahoo into the ground. With the exception of .NET, Microsoft has faultered from day one with all things 'internet' and failed miserably at understanding where the internet was going.
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Grrr1 year, 9 months ago
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Nope. Microsoft is just beginning it's real offensive on Google and the engine market, plain and simple. MS Live already pushes more traffic than Yahoo, anyway, so it's just cleaning up the #2&3 spots and ramping up to focus on #1. To be perfectly honest, I'd rather have MS tracking my traffic than Google, which is nothing more or less than the publicly traded branch of the NSA these days.
MS faltered at all things 'internet'? HAR! There wouldn't be a world wide web, at least not prior to about the turn of the century, if it hadn't been for Gates' monopoly focusing on core protocols and ramming standards down everyone's throat. It took a monopoly to define the playing field that everyone now takes for granted. It didn't exist before MS capitalized it and burned off competing technologies in rapid fashion. Is Yahoo just a competing technology to be burned off of the new playing field? Yeah, probably. I fail to see where it's any great loss, especially not to shareholders.
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tdrapeau1 year, 9 months ago
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I could see Microsoft buying Yahoo!, then having Yahoo be Microsoft Web Services. Yahoo! has certainly mastered the internet and internet applications in its lifetime, much more so than Microsoft, and this could take heat off MSN/Live/etc.
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studio1 year, 9 months ago
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The official release:
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.
http://news.taume.com/World-Business/Business-F...
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HS571 year, 9 months ago
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I switched to a satellite internet service 9 months ago and immediately stopped receiving all spam related material. Recently I installed the Google toolbar into internet explorer and one day after, received a spam from some dirt bag in India claiming to be a Google representative. This tells me Google has no privacy protection and I uninstalled the toolbar and emailed Google to remove all references to my name from their database. I never had this problem with Yahoo or Microsoft. I hope Google disappears.
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mattpowell191 year, 9 months ago
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I don't think that it matters all to much. Consider the following. Microsoft buys Yahoo. Ok, not a horrible move but bad no the less. Then in a year or two or maybe even less, Google just buys out Microsoft. So yeah it takes a nose dive down but then Google will come in and clean everything up. They are just waiting for the right time to do what they need to do.
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