MS Yahoo?

http://news.com.com/Report+Microsoft+eyeing+Yahoo+deal/2100-7345_3-6181379.html?tag=nefd.top


internet's first real..brand.  cool.

either buy them - or switch everything to windows.com

msn has got to go...

    I would prefer they integrate their services like they have done with messenger.

Yahows!

ms flikr.... ms del.icio.us.. ms broadcast.com ... ms geocities (ha)


edit... *after merger...

Microsoft Flikr Photo Sharing Technologies for Windows
Microsoft del.icio.us.net
Microsoft Soapbox.broadcast.com.silverlight.windowsmediatechnologies.playsforsure.zune.net

They'd have to be Yahoo.Live services surely? Or perhaps Mashoo!

Why is everyone looking for someone that MS should buy? I mean, they buy companies often, but why the interest? Unless you've got stock I suppose...

before:
1. google  40%
2. yahoo 30%
3. msn 15%

after:

1. yahoo/ms 45%
2. google 40%



edit: actually that chart is from last year..  but it would be pretty close once you factor in IE error pages...

Potential Threat: GO USA!

Google Dreams--Microsoft Nightmares: GO USA!

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=297266


Microsoft needs a containment strategy and to open up its vault of cash.

Three companies, Rational Software, Macromedia, and YouTube were bought by major competitors, IBM, Adobe and Google.

Microsoft Merger Memories--The Way We Were

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=243426#243426


If Yahoo is in play, then Google can go after Yahoo as well as other companies.  A bidding war may breakout.

I would prefer Yahoo remain a separate company and competitor to both Google and Microsoft.

The term sheet and in particular price will determine whether this merger happens.

I think not, unless they have someone new running their M&A department and Microsoft is willing to pay top dollar.

Beware of Winner's Curse!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner's_curse

If Microsoft can't build a world class search engine then they ought to get out of the game.

What does this do for the confidence of the Live Search Team?

The assumption that the combined MSN/Yahoo would equall the combined sum of their users is dead wrong. I use Yahoo and MSN....

Yahoo and Microsoft have very different cultures, if this acquisition went through the best and brightest of Yahoo would take a short freeway trip to Google.

Yahoo is much more than just search, they also have a number of other areas that would surely make MSFT happy to acquire.

ScanIAm wrote:

Yahoo is much more than just search, they also have a number of other areas that would surely make MSFT happy to acquire.

hmm what about this stuff:

With an eye toward its bottom line, Yahoo has decided to jettison its own proprietary scripting language in favor of the open-source alternative PHP.

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963937.html


and

Yahoo! User Interface Library

The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. The YUI Library also includes several core CSS resources. All components in the YUI Library have been released as open source under a BSD license and are free for all uses.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

I say BUY!

I would love it if Yahoo was acquired by Microsoft. Yahoo has been frustrating me more and more lately.

I wonder if Microsoft has any plans to do publisher-advertising like Yahoo and Google have been doing. This is apparently a very popular thing lately, and it must have come up in MS-conversations at one time or another.

Yahoo is doing a poor job with the publisher-advertisements lately, and it would be nice to see if Microsoft could fix up their errors.

A buy like that could actually hurt Microsoft.

$50 billion for Yahoo?

Does Microsoft even have that in reserves?

Xaero_Vincent wrote:

A buy like that could actually hurt Microsoft.

$50 billion for Yahoo?

Does Microsoft even have that in reserves?

just out of curiosity....

ok say yahoo is 30 billion to 50 billion to buy

what if MS just took that money - and bought google shares?

first - is it possible?
second - the founders of google have some clause about takeovers - i forgot what but i think it was specifically geared toword an ms takeover

was just thinking the money might be better spent remving the google "good guy" image- as ms would become the largest shareholder = kill yahoo - team with google

?

jamie wrote:

just out of curiosity....

ok say yahoo is 30 billion to 50 billion to buy

what if MS just took that money - and bought google shares?

first - is it possible?
second - the founders of google have some clause about takeovers - i forgot what but i think it was specifically geared toword an ms takeover

was just thinking the money might be better spent remving the google "good guy" image- as ms would become the largest shareholder = kill yahoo - team with google

?

plus they have weird share auctions/invites type things.. most likely to thwart being owned too much by any single company

So they're going to port all of that PHP/FreeBSD/MySQL/Postgres Code to Microsoft stuff?