Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal

Agent-X - 385 days 19 hours ago

Holy cow that's a lot of money

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IzKyD1331 - 385 days 19 hours ago

Whats the point? Yahoo is failing and Live search is failing, no matter what happens, both will still get their asses handed to them by google

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Agent-X - 385 days 19 hours ago

Microsoft wasting there money on yahoo not worth the deal maybe they should keep there money and spend it more on the 360's RROD

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Agent-X - 385 days 19 hours ago

yea thanxs for reminding me i also have a yahoo account and going to remove it thanxs for reminding me

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OnslaughtX - 385 days 19 hours ago

So does that mean I need to listen to pro MS bullsh1t from Viacom companies, CNET and Yahoo too now?

Nice. Just label it "Micronet" already and be done with it.

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ultimolu - 385 days 19 hours ago

Not them and Yahoo again...
They're fighting way too many battles.

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kewlkat007 - 385 days 19 hours ago

sided with google with some ad-spot deal and rejected MS original offer. MS knew yahoo wasn't gonna do sh!t and was all talk. Well that deal ended and shareholders are more pist..

A couple of months go by, Yahoo stocks continue to falter, that ceo guy resigns under constant pressure from shareholders.
"Yahoo CEO paying the price for saying no to Microsoft 1st time around" $44.6 Billion.

Now the balls in MS's court, Yahoo gambles and lost, it could of made a lot more than what it's worth or what some are willing to buy it for.

Stupid, oh well that's how business goes. Sometimes you have to put brawn ahead of pride.

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casualkiss - 385 days 18 hours ago

From $44 Billion to $20 Billion?!

Amazing what a few months can do.

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buckethead_911 - 385 days 18 hours ago

How cool would it have been if Microsoft bought Epic instead of Yahoo? :(

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MIA - 385 days 18 hours ago

Whats the point of deleting your yahoo account? Are you a fanboy to Google or MS? Its easy to kick someone when they are down (no fun in that). But dont sleep on them, look whose beating Google over and over in the mobile search playground. In case you havent heard both Virgin Mobile & T-Mobile are the first of many to sign up with Yahoo for mobile search.

Yahoo is a solid company. Yahoo is not only known for its seatch engine, its an advertsing power house and that is why MS wants them. And yes, the CEO (Yang) stepped down and they are now in search of a new business leader. Yang was one of the co-founders, his skill sets were in technology and he helped grow Yahoo to where it is today.

I still Y-A-H-O-0, do you? http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yi...

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DJ - 385 days 18 hours ago

But still a bad decision on Yahoo's part. Looks like it's just MS vs Google now.

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OSIRUSSS - 385 days 18 hours ago

I like MS for the most part. I fugin hate the XBOX division with a passion. But I like most other MS stuff. I really like MSNBC. Thats the best news channel on TV.

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OOG - 385 days 17 hours ago

what a discount lol.........who can say they saved 24 billion really???? thats a fire sale

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MIA - 385 days 17 hours ago

Watch and see, Yahoo will prevail =)

Go Yahoo, Go!!!

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badkolo - 385 days 17 hours ago

its not happening, this story has been proved false today.

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MUGEN - 385 days 16 hours ago

I guess Microsoft finally figured out no one uses MSN.

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Jason 360 - 385 days 15 hours ago

This will expand both MS and Yahoo and force google to do somthing they can't afford. Having 40 billion to do whatever you want, when ever you want, isn't somthing many corporations can do. Not without selling assets, borrowing, and begging ivesters. It would take a company like Google or Sony years to come up with that kind of change, just spend at will. If thet get Yahoo for 20 billion they still have 20 more to play with.

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Darkseider - 385 days 7 hours ago

The three E mantra at its' best! Embrace, Extend, Extinguish! Microsoft has been doing business this way since it started life and they know of no other way to work. They don't innovate or have any unique qualities in any of their products. They just buy something that threatens them, extend it and then by doing so extinguish its' existance.

Some examples:

Sugar CRM, Hotmail, Windows (all flavors), the bastardized BSD IP stack in their OS's, the bastardized versions of the SMB/NMB protocols they use as well as LDAP, Kerberos and MAPI. Let's not forget the completely fubared SIPP implementation in their IM clients. How about the "me too" attitude with Vista in their failed attempt to make an OS that looks like OS X but works like crap. OOOOH I KNOW!! Internet Explorer 8 which is based alot on Mozilla code, why? Simple. They can't code a browser to save their asses either. Then of course is their XML based document format in Office 2007 which absolutely sucks ass compared to .ODF format found in Open Office. The Zune, ROFL. Last but not least the XBox series of consoles and the NXE complete with Microsoft Miis!!! Yes innovation at its' best. NOT

Microsoft fails as a company and innovator. Where they succeed though is in marketing their half assed wares to the masses. If people weren't such lemmings they would realize that there is a much better world available to them in IT and it is absent of all things Microsoft. When/IF the Microsoft bank runs dry and they are no longer able to buy their way into a market or market segment is when the company will fold. They haven't been able to come up with a single product software or hardware worth a damned. If it weren't for the companies and technologies they bought and integrated into their own they would have ceased to exist a LONG time ago.

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MIA - 385 days 6 hours ago

WHY does MS want Yahoo? ADVERTISEMENT BUSINESS --> Chi-Ching $$$

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MIA - 385 days 5 hours ago

What if Apple decides to buy Yahoo?

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NegativeCreep427 - 385 days 18 hours ago

This deal will result in just as much successful financial returns for Microsoft as their acquisition of Rare; Which was absolutely nothing.

Good luck buying that sinking ship, MS.

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gamfreak - 385 days 18 hours ago

What M$ has is cash and nothing else, everything fail when M$ touches something. 3fixme = fail..! Vista = fail and now YAHOO, i suggest M$ to concentrate more on their product and nothing else.

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rob6021 - 385 days 15 hours ago

Now everything Yahoo will have the stigma of being owned by the richest, greediest corporation in the world, well we will see how well they do after this buyout. I know i won't be using anything yahoo anymore.

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