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- darkchild82, on 02/10/2008, -10/+292"Board members concluded the unsolicited $44.6 billion offer massively undervalues the Web pioneer" - I agree with the web pioneer part but I don't think they are worth way more than $44.6 billion.
- michaelfitz, on 02/10/2008, -13/+217Massively undervalued? That's a crock of BS.
The board is just trying to increase Microsoft's offer to even more ludicrous levels. - kazzyD, on 02/10/2008, -11/+138If you look at the reasoning, you can tell Yahoo is grasping at straws with contradicting logic:
http://www.techconsumer.com/2008/02/09/yahoo-board ... - thinman1189, on 02/10/2008, -11/+120The guys at Google must be rejoicing right now.
- arunforce, on 02/10/2008, -14/+89What innovation has Yahoo! turned out in the last 5 years that anyone actually uses besides Yahoo! Answers?
- bowe, on 02/10/2008, -6/+75that doesn't make it a HOSTILE takeover. A hostile takeover would be if Microsoft bought a majority of yahoo stock in the market without an arranged agreement from yahoo.
- vault, on 02/10/2008, -8/+74They're just trying to get more money out of Microsoft, even if they can't get the whole unrealistic amount they want for it.
- Daiken, on 02/10/2008, -7/+69Microsoft is stupid to offer such a high bid. Yahoo is even more stupid for refusing. I'm happy though, more players = more competition = better services/products.
- Sajentine, on 02/10/2008, -9/+68I agree, I think Microsoft should really just tell them to go ***** themselves and finally take their thumb out their bum and start actually creating a search engine that can compete. I have to believe that with $40 billion laying around Microsoft can actually find people to create what they need and figure what people really want. I mean really how about just browsing the internet for starters.
- inactive, on 02/10/2008, -18/+77Massively undervalued at $44.6 billion?.........whateva.
- lemz, on 02/10/2008, -6/+60Buried for wrong article and a spam post. Yahoo board is THOUGHT to reject the bid.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/yahoo-board- ... - madmariner, on 02/10/2008, -19/+64I dunno...being owned by Microsoft?
- banmaster, on 02/10/2008, -7/+52Its still a dumb move by Yahoo though. They have rapidly become more and mroe irrelevent over the past 5 years and MS's offer of 160% what the company is worth woul dhave assured that yahoo wouldn't eventuall ybr broken up and sold as it needs to find more cash to keep going.
- bowe, on 02/10/2008, -19/+62Good, I may be one of the few who actually likes some of yahoo services better than google. I think they need to refocus their business quite a bit, but they offer some good stuff. If you look at Microsoft's web offerings they're 10x ***** than anything put out by yahoo.
- HerrEisenheim, on 02/10/2008, -2/+44Yahoo's deal with SBC to provide cheap DSL
Yahoo Messenger has become a pretty damn large platform
Yahoo's Small Business Hosting is used by a TREMENDOUS amount of vendors
Yahoo Widgets, as a result of the acquisition of Konfabulator
Yahoo Mail improvements that provide a pretty damn nice AJAX interface
Flickr
del.icio.us
Oh yeah, and they are the #2 advertiser behind Google.
You might want to point out that half of those are a result of acquisitions, but the same can be said for Google. - bowe, on 02/10/2008, -1/+43Hmm, that's odd because I'm pretty sure that the headline says that Yahoo's board rejected the bid and the story says nothing about Microsoft still pursuing the takeover.
- AlienMushroom, on 02/21/2008, -11/+44yahoo's stock will plunge.
- alexdemers, on 02/10/2008, -4/+32Apple? In what way did they "copy" Apple?
- arjung, on 02/10/2008, -5/+32seriously, i valued them at about $12. not million, just 12.
- catalysis, on 02/10/2008, -1/+27I think a lot of people don't realize that yahoo is the #1 news provider on the internet. That alone is worth billions.
- banmaster, on 02/10/2008, -5/+31They're probably behind the offer being rejected.
- skyshock1, on 02/10/2008, -6/+30Something tells me Google's not exactly worried about such a merger. Even with the combined marketshare that would create, it would still PALE in comparison to Google's marketshare. http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technolog ...
- zdiddy85, on 02/10/2008, -3/+25They are holding out so they can get my offer of $5 dollars and a can of Planters.
- AlvesLopes, on 02/10/2008, -22/+44Ohhhh you mean being owned by one of the best companies in the world to work in?
Trace the origin of your hate for MS. You might find it unfounded. - d3lta, on 02/10/2008, -0/+20From Wikipedia: A takeover would be considered "hostile" if (1) the board rejects the offer, but the bidder continues to pursue it, or (2) if the bidder makes the offer without informing the board beforehand.
Nothing in the definition notes that corporation is worth less than the hostile bid, many hostile bids grossly undervalue a company deliberately to take advantage of the ailing companies vulnerability. - archer75, on 02/10/2008, -1/+20Yes, more competition is better. But right now microsoft nor yahoo can come close to touching google. A merger of the two would stand a chance though. And that's the only thing right now that may give google a run for their money thus forcing more innovation on both sides.
- PatrickBrown, on 02/10/2008, -2/+20That may be true if not for one thing: Google exists.
Microsoft will have to pay a premium over Google and not only attempt to catch up on Google but ALSO improve on Google. Any one of these tasks are difficult, let alone all of them.
The first thing that needs to change? -- Would you rather work for Microsoft or Google? Yeah, until that answer changes they will continue to struggle with attracting talent in THIS particular field. - Murdats, on 02/10/2008, -2/+19and that is what they are being offered.
- bob12321, on 02/10/2008, -1/+17Damn, how could I forget that yahoo stole the Zune.
- execute85, on 02/10/2008, -5/+21$45 billion way overvalues yahoo. If the yahoo board seriously thought the stock was undervalued they would be making huge stock buybacks. Before the MSFT offer, yahoo was a bad buy at $20 (year a three year low). Yahoo needs to stop thinking of the glory days and get while the getting's good.
- SleighBoy, on 02/10/2008, -9/+25Thanks Yahoo, I will be keeping my Flickr account now.
- archer75, on 02/10/2008, -5/+21That's why microsoft wants yahoo. They would likely ditch MSN and put alot of resources behind yahoo. It would be better for everyone in the end.
- nospinhere, on 02/10/2008, -7/+22Microsoft will offer them more then anybody else would. If they reject this, they won't see anything better.
- iofthestorm, on 02/10/2008, -10/+24I love how on digg someone gets buried for simply telling people to look beyond their fanboyism and sharing his experiences.
- Darph.Bobo, on 02/10/2008, -1/+15Advertising, sell something that costs you little or nothing to produce. No suppliers, inventory, store front location, manufacturing costs, inventory tax or depreciation and no reliance on raw materials. At least none to speak of.
- ChrisGray, on 02/10/2008, -4/+18MicroSoft offers Yahoo! massively more than their stock value. As a result, Wall Street punishes MicroSoft by knocking down MicroSoft's stock price. Consequently, Yahoo! wants MicroSoft to up the offer to offset the drop in MicroSoft's stock price from the day they made the offer, when the whole reason the stock de-valued was because the market doesn't believe Yahoo! is worth the value MicroSoft offered. Hence, if MicroSoft offered more in the deal, the market would only devalue MicroSoft further, making the same "correction" down to the true value of the Yahoo! purchase. Yahoo! should take the offer, they will never get a better one. Here is an anecdote for Yahoo! I know of a guy who owned a dot com in the late 90s. He was offered $30M for it. His advisers told him to turn down the offer, that he could get more. Shortly thereafter, the dot com bubble burst, his company folded, and he took a job making $65k working at an ad agency. $30M > $65k What a shame. Yahoo!, don't be fools.
- Protoss, on 02/10/2008, -7/+21I think everyone would giggle if MS bought a car company....
That was a terrible analogy buddy. - scaaven2, on 02/10/2008, -4/+18the stock will crash and burn next week. news of the offer alone propelled the stock up 45%. at this point there is even less reason to trust their leadership -- having lost more and more market share over the years.
- knowsfear, on 02/10/2008, -1/+14uhhh, no one is taking anything over. Bowe is correct. Epic fail by tohler
- celkin, on 02/10/2008, -9/+22If you use Windows, you're already owned by Microsoft!
- deepdiggdude, on 02/10/2008, -11/+24*****. Those who trade daily in the market laugh at Yahoo. They are a terrible investment.
- lemz, on 02/10/2008, -0/+13For as long as there's no word from Yahoo, everything is a speculation.
- banmaster, on 02/10/2008, -1/+14Huh?
- HonoredMule, on 02/10/2008, -3/+16What use is a "web pioneer" in a fully explored web? Today we need architects, not explorers.
- burgermind, on 02/10/2008, -0/+12I woulda also accepted shoulda.
- inactive, on 02/10/2008, -0/+12In a negotiation you typically don't take the first offer. Also, I'm not sure how Yahoo is incorporated but MS may be able to just go ahead and buy a controlling stake on the open market even if Yahoo does not want them to.
Obviously that could get very ugly and would take time. There will probably be some back and forth before they settle on a deal. If I were a long term investor I'd want yahoo to hold out for the best deal they can possibly get. It isn't like MS will just walk away because the first offer was rejected. - celkin, on 02/10/2008, -1/+13I know a lot of people that use Yahoo! Mail
- sfacets, on 02/10/2008, -11/+22Hahahahahahahaha
- mcmlxxii, on 02/10/2008, -3/+14How? You assume good+bad = good. Maybe good+bad = brown
- fkr3, on 02/10/2008, -3/+14What principles and identity? With very few exceptions Google buys a company, dumbs down the name and replaces the old logo with the new name and "beta". As for principles.... Yahoo and Google are both corporations, they follow the law not principles.
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