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- TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45RIP Yahoo-Microsoft Talks
May 4th 7:30 AM - May 4th 4:21 PM - 0crabby0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Sounds like someone just wanted to sell some Yahoo! stock , +2.80, +9.9% at closing today.
- EarlofSlander, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Buried as BREAKING!!
- dgaspard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31who didn't see this coming....
- endustry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20I worked for Yahoo from 96-00 and saw it go from a creative startup w/ lots of potential to a warehouse for bland Stanford golfer-types. A Microsoft/Yahoo merger would be like two bricks of tofu combining to form one really big brick of tofu. Nothing more, nothing less.
- neoform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10So can i expect to see that 17% gain in YHOO to drop come monday?
- mach32, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12i'm firmly grounded in reality. making a statement that their products are "pure crap" is a wee bit over the top. microsoft is far from perfect, and they may be behind the curve in some respects, but not everything they do is a total blunder.
- n1ghtw0lf81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8buried for use of the word BREAKING. if we don't stop using this word, it will consume the entire front page.
- Azio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"The 360s just a dreamcast with a nicer UI and faster processing units, There just reinventing the wheel by giving it an engine."
Can a Dreamcast stream music, live TV (with Tivo-like features) and video from a networked PC? Does it have Xbox Live or anything even remotely comparable? Something tells me you don't own and have probably never used a 360. - Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18That announcement is only to cool down the stock, Ballmer said he wants to "..***** bury Google", Microsoft doesn't have a clue how to do it but Yahoo would their last and only hope and Ballmer knows this.
Microsoft has missed absolutely EVERY big thing so far in the 21st Century and many others in the late 20th. They can't innovate, they're creatively brain-dead, their products are pure crap or bloatware, they just don't get it and they're desperate. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I'm disappointed. Microsoft buying Yahoo would have been the best thing to ever happen to Google.
- the_snitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6that's probably the best analogy I've heard all week
- trghpy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Obviosuly everyone who missed the copy that made it to the front page.
- mulling, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Thank ***** god.
There is only one thing that would make me get rid of my precious del.icio.us and flickr accounts, it's goddamned Microsoft. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Midday it was nearly 20%.. pretty insane. It dropped heavily when the news came that the talks weren't active anymore, and yet still closed 10% higher. I guess some investors don't pay enough attention to the news.
- firekrakcer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I knew I should have shorted YHOO this morning.
- kurotenshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This seems to be more of a shady stock valuation strategy than anything else...
- psykiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Example for what I said
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=YHQEZ.X
Opened at .05, hit a day high of 2.15. Say you sold it at 2. Thats 40x your money. Say you put in 5k. Thats 200k. Now with those 200k, buy some puts, it goes down (up) by the same percentage, thats another 40x your money. Thats $8m. Minus about a million or so in attorneys fees convincing the SEC you weren't insider trading and you're set :)
Disclosure: Not an investment advisor. Does not own stock in yahoo or msft. This is just my opinion based on my observations. Don't sue me. - deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10How is the 360 innovative? It's a game console.
- robinator08, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4BREAKING my ass
- phlogiston99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Breaking news: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- geeke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2stop with the BREAKING NEWS:
its not breaking news when it was already on the front page you stupid *****! - Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Okay, I've give you that. Not everything they release is pure crap their Office products are actually very good but the vast majority of their products are second rate.
With the resources at Microsoft's disposal it's hard to understand why they do so poorly with so much. - psykiv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2screw shorting. I wish I bought some call options last night, sold them this morning, and then bought some put options this afternoon.
I might be able to retire at 21 with the proceeds :). - DiggFight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sick of the misuse of these buzz words. Where is the bury brigade when you need them?
- waterdrop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why would they waste there money on Yahoo anyway. I don't see any value in owning Yahoo. As they seem to be losing big market share as Google keeps gaining.
- morriscat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Yahoo-soft"?? ok, that funny, but not as funny as "Micro-hoo" ;)
- th3heretic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My god, there are 3 breaking stories in a row !
- jeffgtr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The day Microsoft buys Yahoo is the day I dump delicous, flickr and of course my yahoo email account, ugghh. The last company that I had anything to do with that was bought by Microsoft was Imedia, took them about 2 months to go to heck. It's alot of money to spend to ruin a company.
- shanmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess Yahoo! is holding out for a bigger payday. I don't think Yahoo! would be a good buy for Microsoft anyways. They just need better management in their Windows Live division.
- morriscat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BREAKING the habit.
- kidcodea, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1clearly this was based on digg community feedback ;)
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4> Microsoft has missed absolutely EVERY big thing so far in the 21st Century and many others in the late 20th. They can't innovate, they're creatively
> brain-dead, their products are pure crap or bloatware, they just don't get it and they're desperate.
I will give you that there have been some examples of places they have missed the boat. Live search is probably the biggest example I can think of. But your comment is clearly wrong.
Every tried Office 2007? If there was ever a product where Microsoft could have just sat on and done nothing with, I would say that was Office. Yet nothing comes close to the ribbon interface in terms of productivity. They clearly did their homework and it shows.
Or take a look at ReadyBoost. That is a damned good idea. I can buy a USB key for $15 and get about 75% of the benefit of buying $80 worth of additional RAM.
What about Volume Shadow Copy, a feature that lets you take advantage of the fact you have 100s of GB of hard disks and most people have only 10s of GB of data / documents / music / apps.
Even (gasp) UAC makes it bearable to run Windows as a regular user.
I would call .NET innovative. Yes they scalped the right people from other organisations, and took a fair chunk of ideas from VCL and Java, but it is also very different to those technologies because CTS really allows you to develop each class in the language you have the expertise and resources. Visual Studio is still one of the best IDEs available.
Although I am quite happy with my Wii (which I feel was even more innovative), I also recognise that the 360 did a lot of things right.
Now no-one is going to tell you that they are always managed well, but they would be relegated to history should your statement have been true. - lukychmz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1reminds me of the whole dell buying alienware thing not too long ago. They denied everything then ''poof' deal done
- gjzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Darn it! I was hoping to see them fail! ~~~~
- diggerrrr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1looks like i bought at the wrong moment... good waste of 200k investment :( ***** ***** news
- Darph.Bobo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6You can't be addressing me, everything I stated is verifiable fact.
Now, If you take off those rose-shaded glasses that clarity you see is reality. - adrianwaj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Talks were disbanded when Microsoft realised it could gain no more trade secrets from Yahoo! !
- Ocelot13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2reply to your first post, no need for a new one.
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1heh... well it looks like I made the right call and made 2 bucks per share on the bump and as soon as
it started to fall I jumped ship.
There is really no synergy in Microsoft buying Yahoo.
Yahoo really has nothing that is not already present in microsoft's offerings.
The company's Yahoo has purchased in the past, I'll use egroups for example, yahoo has sucked the
life out of it in its path to making egroups more politically correct.
Yahoo and MSN both suck as Internet products and just reducing the number of competitors won't
make Microsoft anymore money in the long term.
Currently microsoft's trying to integrate there software products with there web product.
hotmail inter grated with MS exchanges, MSNMoeny integrated with Money.
Cellular phones software integrated with your desktop products. They all work but they all suck.
Great just what I want more vectors for spyware and viruses. - gamebittk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3@ my earlier comment:
http://digg.com/microsoft/Wall_Street_Journal_Microsoft_Yahoo_Reconsider_Merger
Quote this article:
"The two companies may still explore other ways of cooperating, the Journal reported". - gamebittk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Inacurate. The AP release was posted today, an the article mentioned "re-enter formal negotiations". From when, I don't know -- and they have just began discussing a possible partnership -- not a merger.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Wow, as lame as MSxerox is that know that Yahoo! sucks. Maybe now Yahoo! will provide their media content in Flash so more people can have access.
- mach32, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2the world can go on now
- Azio, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Yahoo? Who the ***** still goes there.
- cgomez, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Why is this news? The WSJ said this ever since the story hit this morning; hence why many buried the earlier story as "inaccurate".
Yahoocrosoft will not be anytime soon. - rasterbator, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1ALL I can say is, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
- madfusion15, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1wow this ***** is breaking news. i stopped doing everything just to read it. *****.
- miket019, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1"Microsoft has missed absolutely EVERY big thing so far in the 21st Century and many others in the late 20th. They can't innovate, they're creatively brain-dead, their products are pure crap or bloatware, they just don't get it and they're desperate."
Come on, if it wouldn't be for Microsoft, Apple would be bankrupt long ago. It's ok to talk trash but don't do it at the expense of the one that bail you out.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WxOp5mBY9IY - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1BREAKING: WIND
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