[General] Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

[Burhan Khalid]

The real reason Microsoft is considering Yahoo! is because Microsoft 
desperately needs a strong foothold in the online advertising space, 
which it is severely lacking -- this is the only arena it can hope to 
compete with Big G.

I am more concerned with the fact that Yahoo employs very high profile 
open source developers (like Rasmus Lerdof) and I wonder how the
possible takeover would affect their roles.


bashar abdullah wrote:
> Ewwwww... as you said Majed, I completely freezed hotmail from any use, 
> and anyone contacting me there is sending his email to a black hole. 
> It's only good for spam site registrations.
> 
> As to why they want to  acquire Yahoo, well I guess the Oracle-BEA 
> acquisition sparked the idea. They want to buy market share and power 
> which they could not earn by their hands. They want Google's head on a 
> platter. Ballmer vowed to do this, and he failed times and times. 
> Hotmail was chosen as one of worst 25 sites of the year last year. MSFT 
> simply isn't fit for the online battle, and they failed to acquire 
> Google years back. Now they wanna try with Yahoo. Great company, not 
> doing as expected financially, best target.
> 
> This is the type of acquisitions I REALLY HATE. Acquiring competitor 
> means affecting the whole market. Just like Oracle did, and now they 
> come with two "This is best thing" solutions, which I cant trust any as 
> they are both shaky right now. What's the end result? Oracle used to be 
> tempted to support different App Servers to sell it's enterprise 
> applications, but now they will be more motivated to tie it to their system.
> 
> Bill once saved Apple saying he needs competition to move forward (or 
> maybe some OS to copy from :P), and now he wants to kill the online 
> battle. How contradictory, and now unhealthy.
> 
> God have mercy on fate of all humanity!
> 
> I personally don't think it will go through though.
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 10:51 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com 
> <mailto:majedb at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Dude, that's not funny!
> 
>     The whole Internet will be disgusting! Well, more than it is now! I'm
>     trying to get rid off the Hotmail account, so now MS is trying to take
>     Yahoo! so I get to get rid off my Yahoo! account as well! :/
>     What about all the Yahoo! services, shops, imaging galleries, ...etc.?
>     And what will happen to MSN? After all these years of building MSN's
>     network & reputation, will Yahoo! replace it?
> 
>     According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft  MS's revenue was
>     51 billion .. so the buyout is like throwing most of the revenue out
>     at Yahoo! which makes $6.7 billion
>     (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo). Maybe MS is trying to get into
>     the services that are being offered by Yahoo!
>     One thing I know is that SanDisk has a deal with Yahoo! to serve MP3
>     music over wireless and people can shop from Yahoo! using SanDisks's
>     MP3 players. If Microsoft took Yahoo! I'm sure such a deal would hurt
>     SanDisk (and maybe other vendors) as MS tries to force its Zune
>     player.
> 
>     Here's a short list of what Yahoo! acquired Till Jan 2007 (date of
>     article):
>     http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquisition_pattern.php
>     They sure put a threat to Google.
> 
>     I'd feel bad for Yahoo! employees, if that buyout ever went through
>     and the EU agreed to it.
>     --
>           Majed B.
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