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Topic: Microsoft to buy Yahoo (Read 11918 times)
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Tale
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It's on. I have shares involved. Not talking, linking. link |
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Trippy
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Headline is misleading. They are making an offer. Doesn't mean the shareholders will accept. Also needs to clear anti-trust hurdles.
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Headline is not misleading when the offer is $31 a share and the recent share price is $18. Edit - And when 1000 people are headed down Semel Drive. |
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« Last Edit: February 01, 2008, 04:49:46 AM by Tale »
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Trippy
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I haven't read a Yahoo prospectus in over 10 years but I bet it's going depend a lot on how much stock the "old timers" still hold and whether or not they want to do this. Plus again it'll have to pass anti-trust muster. In particular the EU may have issues given how much anti-trust trouble Microsoft's been having over there.
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The EU is turning into America, Jr. It's like they caught wind of how much money could be made by being litigious bastards and ran with the idea. Not that Microsoft is squeaky clean, but there are other companies just as lawsuit-worthy.  Back to the topic at hand, I'm not sure how I feel about Microsoft owning Flickr someday. I suppose it could work. |
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I guess this means the whole "Live" thing was a failure.
Or maybe this is the thing that'll put it over the top.
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naum
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According to this cat, it will be a done deal: http://paul.kedrosky.com/ 1. It will happen. Neither company can afford for it to not happen, and no-one will outbid Microsoft given its dire need. About the only way Yahoo could keep it from happening would be to cut a quick deal to outsource its search to Google, which would be smart, savvy, and MicroHoo-killing -- and almost certainly won't happen.
2. It won't (really) matter. Some more scale in search will help Microsoft, no question, but the fundamental problem is that Microsoft is trapped between two worlds and has an absence of vision. That has been holding it back, not engineers and not ownership of Yahoo pageviews. Microsoft isn't doomed -- far from it -- but buying a broken asset doesn't turn it into a BrinPage-killer either.
3. It's good for Google. Two elephants mating are always good for confusing customers and helping incumbents, not to mention improving margins. You will see Google gain surplus search and advertising share as this deal comes together.
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When Yahoo bought Geocities my email addy got a .geo appended to it and became a yahoo address. Now that MS is buying yahoo I wonder if they will append a .yah to my .geo and change it to an msn.com address?
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Abagadro
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I haven't read a Yahoo prospectus in over 10 years but I bet it's going depend a lot on how much stock the "old timers" still hold and whether or not they want to do this.
They won't have a lot of choice. With a cash bid that high, their Revlon duties will be such that they can't really turn it down. |
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A friend at Yahoo! says he will sell his shares if they put a ! on the end of Microsoft
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A friend at Yahoo! says he will sell his shares if they put a ! on the end of Microsoft
I reckon they'll be a mass exodus and/or RIF… …not immediate, but these merger deals are destructive… …redundancy, plus, some will no doubt, cash out and opt to explore other career venues, be it newly minted ISV or enjoying pina coladas on a tropical beach… Money people going to rake in a lot of dough, but damage will be done to the intellectual assets of both firms. M$ is already dead on the inside, living off the laurels of a desktop monopoly (in the business/corporate world) that's the equivalent of billions of tollbooths that sit on worker desks… …and everytime M$ has mingled with some F/OSS (of which Yahoo is heavy duty), it's not been a fruitful experience. I don't think the leaves are colored any different in 2008. Of course I wonder about EU. I remember working for Honeywell when GE bought out and my entire department was told that Operation Shutdown was in effect, and we had like 9-12 months as GE would consolidate and eliminate many Honeywell redundant departments… …then the EU nixed it (after U.S. stamped it OK without nary a thought) — moral in my department never recovered, and most everybody was just marking the days to retirement or leaving anyway… …of course, that ends up being a clusterfuck of immense proportions as a harried staff has to support all the systems from cannibalized company purchases… |
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« Last Edit: February 02, 2008, 01:38:42 AM by naum »
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Tale
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How do you solve this? http://yahoo7.com.auhttp://ninemsn.com.auThat's the two top TV networks in Australia, Nine and Seven - one in a joint venture with MSN, the other with Yahoo, using their respective US technologies. Those TV networks are BITTER rivals in the ratings war who don't even speak to each other. Edit - I need to link this Steve Ballmer video and I'm not making another post for it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc |
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« Last Edit: February 02, 2008, 03:08:31 AM by Tale »
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How do you solve this? http://yahoo7.com.auhttp://ninemsn.com.auThat's the two top TV networks in Australia, Nine and Seven - one in a joint venture with MSN, the other with Yahoo, using their respective US technologies. Those TV networks are BITTER rivals in the ratings war who don't even speak to each other. I would assume you solve it by not giving a fuck. No offense to my friends down under, but I'm pretty sure Australia has less TV watchers than, say, North Dakota. Or Canada, America's Hat. Basically, in a deal this big, that sort of shit doesn't matter even one tiny bit. At all. Not even a little. |
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Edit - I need to link this Steve Ballmer video and I'm not making another post for it.
When you have $15 billion you can dance around like a moron and not care what people think. Nice job on the 48% gain in one day though! |
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Tale
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I would assume you solve it by not giving a fuck. No offense to my friends down under, but I'm pretty sure Australia has less TV watchers than, say, North Dakota. Or Canada, America's Hat.
Basically, in a deal this big, that sort of shit doesn't matter even one tiny bit. At all. Not even a little.
We know that. But we've still got to solve it. |
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So the one company widely considered more evil than MS is trying to buy Yahoo. Interesting. If I were Bill Gates I'd start trying to buy stuff Fox buys. All he'd have to tell the shareholders is "Hey, at least I'm not Murdoch!" |
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Miasma
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At $28, I turned my Yahoo shares into a new bed. It's very comfortable, perfect for lying back and watching.
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Were they really being that greedy in asking for so much more per share? I wish I understood mergers/take overs/buy outs better.
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Abagadro
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I'm surprised that MSFT didn't take this to a proxy fight.
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I found the discussion motherlode on the Yahoo Finance YHOO stock discussion board. This kind of thing. I'm seriously thinking of committing suicide 4-May-08 02:49 am
I am going to owe probably around $35,000 due to a margin call if this opens around $22. I used money from our home equity line of credit and it's maxed out. I lost my job 3 weeks ago and will be totally broke. I don't know what to do. I've been smoking cigarrettes non stop since this news. I cannot sleep and my heart is racing. I have $1800 cash and thats it. Will I go to jail if I cannot pay? I don't know what to do? I have a gun and am ready to use it. I am more than serious. Some more: I am holding 1500 Yahoo stock bought at $26.80... 4-May-08 03:31 am
do u guys really think its going to $19...
If i want to sue yahoo management how can i do that? Would anyone advise sitting an waiting(not to sell) 41 minutes ago I bought 700 shares at $28.13.What price do you think these will be when the market opens. I know these are gonna fall to maybe $18 or lower. Could it be possible if you hung on to them for 6 months or more that yahoo could get strong again. Anyone got any advice please I do not wish to sell out of fear,but if your says its wise to i will.I am a newbie to shares. SHOULD HAVE STUCK WITH BACKING THE HORSES.  |
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« Last Edit: May 04, 2008, 02:25:22 AM by Tale »
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Lantyssa
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Miasma
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Were they really being that greedy in asking for so much more per share? I wish I understood mergers/take overs/buy outs better.
I don't know, it's a huge game of chicken really. Microsoft swore up and down that they would never increase the price and got all belligerent about it, but they did wind up upping it, by five billion dollars. It wasn't unreasonable to think they might go higher. It might also not have been all about money, a lot of the people making the decision to sell wouldn't want to work for Microsoft. I was reading another article that in order to keep the best employees (which is all a software company really consists of) Microsoft was expecting to spend many billions more to keep them around knowing how much people don't like them. I'm surprised that MSFT didn't take this to a proxy fight.
I guess they have been talking to a lot of the major shareholders about what price they would sell at, their price was too high and Microsoft probably didn't think they would get enough to win a proxy fight. They will probably let the stock tank and then buy them up in the summer only this time the speculators who thought Microsoft would do this at any cost won't be boosting Yahoo's price because they got burned so bad this time. If I was a gambling man I'd buy some Yahoo once it bottoms... |
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Miasma
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I found the discussion motherlode on the Yahoo Finance YHOO stock discussion board. This kind of thing. I'm seriously thinking of committing suicide 4-May-08 02:49 am
I am going to owe probably around $35,000 due to a margin call if this opens around $22. I used money from our home equity line of credit and it's maxed out. I lost my job 3 weeks ago and will be totally broke. I don't know what to do. I've been smoking cigarrettes non stop since this news. I cannot sleep and my heart is racing. I have $1800 cash and thats it. Will I go to jail if I cannot pay? I don't know what to do? I have a gun and am ready to use it. I am more than serious. OP has been deleted but not the thread for some reason, some sick fucks in there. What type of gun do you have? Maybe I can give you some cash for it? What does your wife look like? Can I have her number? |
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Strazos
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What does Yahoo even do anymore to make them worth anything? Serious question.
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schild
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Uh, it's the number one or number two most trafficked site on the internet. And it's called advertising.
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Strazos
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But I mean, what are people going there FOR? Google has something close to a monopoly on the search engine biz.
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schild
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But I mean, what are people going there FOR? Google has something close to a monopoly on the search engine biz.
Really? I mean, REALLY STRAZOS? Yahoo is fucking everywhere, even if 90% of it is for yokels. |
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Strazos
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I'll have to take your word for it.
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Yahoo has the largest email user base (MS is 2nd). It has the 1st or 2nd largest IM user base (MS is 1st or 2nd). It's also the largest "portal" site (MS is 2nd).
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schild
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I find it hard to believe that more people use YIM than MSN or AIM. Particularly with all the legacy AIM users.
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