Microsoft targets Yahoo! with $44.6bn bid »
Posted By studio 8 months, 1 week 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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GregD8 months, 1 week ago
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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Grrr8 months, 1 week ago
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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marshx8 months, 1 week ago
"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."
I'd like for you to point out what it is that Gates or Microsoft has done for the internet.
To my knowledge, nothing except jumping onto bandwagons i.e. putting out alternative standards for things that already existed.
Had Microsoft played any significant part in the internet, we'd all be paying to surf.
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TimALoftis8 months, 1 week ago
This has been in the rumor mill for sometime. At one time it was also believed that Microsoft had expressed interested in Time Warner's AOL division - the parent company of Propeller.
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tdrapeau8 months, 1 week ago
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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Cityslicker8 months, 1 week ago
Yahsoft , oh no there goes the neighborhood .
If Sir William Gates wants Yahoo bad enough it will happen !
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Grand38 months, 1 week ago
This is the work of the younger generation, such as fathers, as chief designer Billy and Windows have already left voluntarily
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studio8 months, 1 week ago
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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HS578 months, 1 week ago
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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ric60008 months, 1 week ago
I think this is great news, a big bite for Microsoft and serious competition for big G...
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mattpowell198 months, 1 week ago
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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