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Canonsburg, PA | Re: WTF? IMHO the idea is to get Time Warner to acquire Yahoo for the purpose of combining it with AOL and spinning off the combined entity. That would effectively prevent Microsoft from acquiring Yahoo for at least two years and by that time the Microsoft friendly Bush administration would be out of office. | |
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Atlanta, GA | Just trying to get MS to pay more... At first glance this looks to be a huge mistake as it'd then be two bad companies bound to fail but I'm sure the real reason it to just get Microsoft to offer more money. | |
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| | | Re: Just trying to get MS to pay more... Karl, you missed the news. Yahoo's board rejected the bid and sent a letter to M$ CFO this weekend saying the offer was too small. It was on Yahoo News, The AP, and the NY Times Yesterday. Yahoo claims, according to the AP, that Yahoo is worth more than $45 billion. By the way, Google has already called Yahoo, this weekend, to negotiate Yahoo using Google search rather than it's own--called Panama. Analysts say Yahoo is worth $35 a share not the $31 a share M$ is offering in a hostile takeover attempt. Where the hell the TimesOnline in the UK got this crappy story I'll never know. By the way, Time Warner is supposed to be spinning off AOL to get rid of it the AP reported last week since no one wants it and has been trying to sell it for about 6 months.
Read an online REAL newspaper instead of the fake news from some geek's blog. Or, you can always GOOGLE the news before you write it WRONG! Or, use an American business newspaper.
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London, ON | Re: Just trying to get MS to pay more... Please provide us a link to your website with near up to the minute tech news so that we may bask in the glory that is your perfection. | |
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Silver Spring, MD | Re: Just trying to get MS to pay more... Yes, were is this holy grail of an online news resource with up to the millisecond news?! Can they install Flash 7 into my iris' and mini speakers into my inner ear and give me daily up dates via these neural implants?!
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London, ON | Re: Just trying to get MS to pay more... Oh we've all been basking in your glory for quite some time TK. 
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| | | | | said by Raptor:Please provide us a link to your website with near up to the minute tech news so that we may bask in the glory that is your perfection. Yahoo.com
NYTimes.com
AP.com
Cox.net
AOL.com
I know you all rely on Karl but are your fingers broken? Gee, if you would read more news, you'd find out that porn was free last month! Does that movitate you to read other news sources? If DSLR had free porn, you guys would never go anywhere else on the net. LOL!
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London, ON | Re: Just trying to get MS to pay more... said by supergirl:Gee, if you would read more news, you'd find out that porn was free last month! If you just found out porn was free last month, perhaps your news sources aren't as great as you lead on
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| | | | Which is exactly why the AOL/Yahoo 'buzz'. It drives up the stock price, so MS can make a higher, counter offer. I mean, what's the use of having a girlfriend no one else wants to look at? | |
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Tulsa, OK | If I were Microsoft... I would say, "fine, merge with that turd AOL and DIE!" | |
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London, ON | Stupid Mergers.... Great, can't wait for my ISPs email to become Rogers-Yahoo-AOL and become even more garbage infested.
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Anytown, USA | Funny Guess $31 a share wasn't enough? Considering they were at $19 a share before MS made an offer. Try GM, Disney or even AT&T, but AOL?
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Beloit, WI | The real question is..... What the hell does Microsoft see in Yahoo?
It has to be the brand. | |
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kudos:2 | Re: The real question is..... said by DoubleK:What the hell does Microsoft see in Yahoo? It has to be the brand. Millions of @yahoo email users that they can push their advertisement to through the webmail gui. | |
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kudos:4 | said by DoubleK:What the hell does Microsoft see in Yahoo? It has to be the brand. Advertising share to combat Google. AOL's gateway still gets plenty of viewers for their ads.
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If they start spamming me like the old msn/hotmail days they will force me to google, lol.
I think AT&T is foolish, not that they have 44 billion laying around but it would have been a great fit for a telecom who relies on Yahoo for a large percentage of their eMail needs.
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| Re: The real question is..... Why would AT$T by them? Back before SWBELL became SBC all of those companies had their own portals and email. SBC then decided to kill it (and everyone else they bought up) and use Yahoo! out sourcing is cheaper than maintaining everything yourself especially for the users AT$T has. | |
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Beloit, WI | Re: The real question is..... Then I guess it is a good thing that Microsoft and AT&T have no competitive interests. | |
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1 edit | Re: Rejected.... said by supergirl:said by N10Cities:Yahoo formally rejected Microsoft's bid as 'inadequate' according to MSNBC. Big headline on main page, but no article yet.... Baloney, I read it yesterday on Yahoo News, the AP, and the NY Times. Well, good for you!  | |
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Bradenton, FL | Microsoft the only viable bidder Time Warner is talking about divesting itself from AOL so why would they want to buy Yahoo? It's amazing that 2 powerhouses, Microsoft and Yahoo can't take on Google by themselves. Yahoo right now has no business vision, didn't have one for awhile. Right now with the credit crunch going on, Microsoft would probably be the only viable bidder. | |
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Middletown, CT | Re: Microsoft the only viable bidder said by viperpa33s:Time Warner is talking about divesting itself from AOL so why would they want to buy Yahoo? It's amazing that 2 powerhouses, Microsoft and Yahoo can't take on Google by themselves. Yahoo right now has no business vision, didn't have one for awhile. Right now with the credit crunch going on, Microsoft would probably be the only viable bidder. I think they were talking about Yahoo buying AOL from TW | |
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| Why not merge with grand daddy Google? I agree with the previous post that AOL is dying before our eyes. The name AOL is synonymous with crap.
Make Microsoft mad and go with Google. 
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If Yahoo wants to survive, maybe the should go own the M$ route or google even as earlier suggested. | |
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League City, TX | I'm not sure they will I think Google would rather see Yahoo burn in hell before they paid that much cash for it. Kudos for Yahoo taking Microsoft for all they got they are just grabing for more money.
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North Babylon, NY | Don't What would be the point of merging one of them, that would make running both IM systems pointless. | |
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| | AOL... may finally be gone with a merger....Imagine everything rebranded with the Yahoo name. It looks a little different, doesn't it? | |
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San Francisco, CA | All in one At least all of the biggest crap on the internet would be on a single portal | |
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| | Re: Yahoo Eyes AOL Merger. ROTFLMAO! Seriously, stop posting jokes in the forum. I refuse to believe that Yahoo turned down $44.6 billion from Microsoft and the best that they could come up with to delay the inevitable is a merger with AOL. The only thing a merger with AOL would do would be to make their profits decline even more and they would have to beg Microsoft to buy them next year for less than what they offered this time. | |
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| Re: Oh please... I never understood why anyone in the press glorified AOL. They were succesful in the dead end dial-up business. They cajoled Wall Street Casino Analysts into thinking they were an advertising juggernaut, and even convinced gullible Time/Warner to buy them.
But AOL never had a future to those who understand the internet.
Since AOL is on a downward curve and will become totally irrelevant in a few years, only a fool would invest in it.
a few years ago, Yahoo, appararently under pressure from religious extremists in the USA, destroyed a whole bunch of sex related forums. They did so without warning, without explanation and also destroyed the user accounts for the owners of those forums. This was done very unprofessionally and I for one am not surprised to see Yahoo lose value.
Meanwhile Google setup its own forums that allow pictures to be stored, whereas Yahoo doesn't. So not only does Yahoo have an inferior forum system, but they can also go and kill any forum without any warning and any opportunity for the owner to save the contents.
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This is a common mis-conception these days.
Actually, AOL *bought* Time-Warner.
If you look at charts of todays TWX stock symbol the data pre-2000 is of the 'AOL' ticker. Orginal TW ticker symbol ended at acquisition/merger. Merged company was renamed "AOL Time-Warner" and then changed again back to just Time-Warner (when stock ticker changed to TWX).
Ongoing executive clashes defeated any merger synergies from day one of the merger. TW exec's where given reigns again after Case left after being blamed for dot.com share price plummet and tarnished corporate image. TW-bred execs have had no clue for years what to do to give AOL a future beyond selling advertising (a market they know from magazines & TV). | |
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