Replying to Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!

Maybe people in the know both at Microsoft and Yahoo know something the rest of us don't. Maybe it has to do with the impending recession in the US, we can only take wild guesses. Although companies like Yahoo would be among the first victims of a protracted recession. But anyway, there is really no synergy in Microsoft buying Yahoo.
Yahoo really has nothing that is not already present in Microsoft's offerings.
So just reducing the number of competitors won't make Microsoft any more money in the long term.
So I say go ahead and knock yourselves out, Microsoft.

ok, Microsoft looks really really really desperate right now, they will lobby Yahoo's shareholders to accept the bid. I ask, what person in the world doesn't see this as a desperate measure anymore.

http://www.cbc.ca/te...2/11/yahoo.html

Your take?

xboxrulz

I seriously don't think Microsoft would be that dumb to pay more, unless they are actually that desperate to be on top of Google. We know that Microsoft wants to be always on top of the pack, and be all monopolistic. Why not a smaller company like ... umm... Ask? or Lycos?

xboxrulz

If Yahoo! and Google became partners then that would be great because both of them have great products and they could definitely improve if they shared there ideas and stuff. As for Microsoft, it doesn't look like it will acquire Yahoo! anytime soon unless they raise their bid by a few billion.
More info here: http://www.ctv.ca/se...209?hub=SciTech

Well, the moral of the story is that if Microsoft was so smart and cash rich they could have grown their own internet business. And we all know how hard they tried. That's why their high bid price isn't a sign of stupidity, it's a sign of desperation.

A surprising turn of events had occurred, Yahoo has since turned down Microsoft's hostile take over. Yahoo rationalizes that their company worth a lot more than what Microsoft's offer. At $31 per share, Yahoo said that, that is too little. They wanted a lot more, they were looking at more than $40 per share, which is around $56 billion dollars. Microsoft is already requiring a loan in order to pay off the $44.6 billion if the acquisition did go through. So it's now even harder for Microsoft to convince shareholders to allow Microsoft to borrow more money to get the deal closed.

More on Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.c...-say-nohoo.html

xboxrulz

Interesting, Yahoo is playing the choosing game now since both giants want a piece of Yahoo somehow. A Google-Yahoo pact would be interesting since Google isn't buying out the company and they are helping Yahoo and the consumer in the process. However, Microsoft is a definite take over, which we know is bad for the consumer (historically).

xboxrulz

Yahoo is beginning to behave like a teenage girl facing a choice between two guys courting her:
"Should I negotiate a higher bid from Microsoft?"
"Should I play a Google defense?"

http://online.wsj.co...d=fpa_whatsnews

Hotmail , when it was born, was an era-changing application. After Microsoft bought it, its become just another mail service. The advantage of being the first in the arena was lost when MS decided to stagnate users at 25Mb inbox space while others had already moved on beyond 100, 500, 1 Gb and gmail. And till hot mail became Windows Live, it loaded up pathetically slow compared to Gmail.
Yahoo, ofcourse hasnt looked any better since the day i abandoned it for gmail, but even so, it commands a following - and a loyal one at that. Though it may have lost some of its core business to MySpace messenger, and though its interface and features pale in comparison to its nearest competitors, Yahoo is THE yahoo. It was my first email address, and most of us have that kinda nostalgia about yahoo.

The point here is, Microsoft only has Google's rapid expansion to counter. All this time, Ive been hoping that yahoo! would rise to the challenge in the interests of Better Business and if Yahoo gives in and gives up now, it would be a crying shame to say the least. Microsoft buying Yahoo is bad news, because most of all its an identity issue, its like Coke buying Pepsi or McDonalds buying Burger King. Hotmail and Yahoo have competed fiercely, and not all of us have Amnesia. Brand identity goes for a toss in this takeover. Imagine your dad getting a sex-change lol and coming home to you "Son, you have two mothers."

Well even if noone else feels this passsionately about the issue , I do think you guys get my point. Yahoo will barely survive this takeover as a brand, while MS can feed its bloated ego.

I think it is a good idea and bad idea. First of all Microsoft only bought Yahoo to bring Google down. Second of all, if Yahoo is bought...there could be alot of changes.