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Yahoo and TWC"Should Time Warner grab Yahoo, that could be win for Time Warner Cable, who could then offer Yahoo's services to its broadband customers"
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macaholic Premium Member join:2003-08-31 Jackson Heights, NY |
well if Microsoft gets Yahoo...It won't exist in a year or two and everone knows it. Microsoft has this nasty habit of buying competition and then sucking it dry and getting it wrong...Look at Hotmail... now Microsoft Live is struggling soooooo lets buy the competition and shoot them in the back of the head execution style.
Case in point was one of my favorite product: Aloha Bob PC relocator... it was too inexpensive and too easy to use so Microsoft brought them and put them down leaving Laplink PCmover to overcharge for there buggy product.... of course there's the craptastic product MS built into there OS.
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TechyDad
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2008-Mar-6 8:55 am
Re: well if Microsoft gets Yahoo...Sure Yahoo will still exist. As a branding name. They'll rename Windows Live into Microsoft Windows Live Yahoo! or something. Then they'll force Yahoo to move their services over to Windows boxes and .NET. When the hastily written code starts crashing left and right, they'll let it languish for awhile until it's all but dead.
Meanwhile, someone (Google, maybe) will come up with a replacement for most, if not all, of Yahoo's services. Google already competes with (or surpasses) Yahoo in many areas. The major thing that Yahoo has that springs to mind that Google doesn't really compete with is Flickr. Should Microsoft buy Yahoo, I could definitely see Google enhancing their Picasa Web application to become a Flickr replacement. | |
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Exactly my sentiments and essentially the thing I said immediately after the public announcement. Microsoft buys Yahoo and everything that makes Yahoo good is immediately dead. Microsoft can't help but screw it up by trying to tie it to the windows and office monopoly and all the other crappy software they make. Had they left hotmail alone and allowed it to improve it would still be around, but they ignored it, rebranded it a dozen times and gmail ate their lunch.
Now after they purchased and spent billions creating all the different Internet strategies they want to buy Yahoo for an astronomical amount of money (which being that the purchase is through MS stock won't be worth as much tomorrow as it's worth today) and they will shoot Yahoo and royally kick the crap out of everything that makes Yahoo unique and a good portal. Microsoft can't be an effective internet competitor because they try to tie everything to all their other products. They just don't get it and probably won't ever get it. | |
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hayabusa3303Over 200 mph Premium Member join:2005-06-29 Florence, SC |
WOWYahoo is in the news alot lately.
Tw or news group niether should get it.
Have i missed something here on yahoo, and why it is up for sale, besides MS trying to take it over. Have i missed the boat somewhere? | |
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TW and Y!?I find it extremely unlikely that TW would buy Yahoo! Not sure where that came from since TW is looking to dump AOL, not take on another new media property it doesn't understand. | |
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2008-Mar-5 6:28 pm
Re: TW and Y!?The article says that TWX would just get a minority stake, which they'd probably sell off at some point- it'd rid them of AOL and leave the new company to someone else to take care of. | |
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Just what TW doesn't need, another tech company that doesn't make money. Who starts these rumors? | |
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Google needs competitionIn the hands of a traditional media/entertainment company, Yahoo will not be as progressive as Google. But for any media company that acquires Yahoo, it would propel them and differentiate themselves way ahead of other media companies.
A deal would be good for the acquiring media company but probably not Yahoo. | |
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Re: Yahoo. Microsoft. Time Warner. Either way, Yahoo's days are numbered. They need to just accept that fact and realize that at least with Microsoft, they'll come out of it with a big pay day. | |
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Smith6612 MVM join:2008-02-01 North Tonawanda, NY |
There probably goes my V' YahooYes, I'm one of the people who have Verizon Yahoo! as their package for DSL. If Time Warner were to buy Yahoo, I'm not sure what would happen to my e-mail account that goes through Yahoo. | |
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rosco35
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2008-Mar-5 10:13 pm
Re: There probably goes my V' Yahooif you have an @verizon.net email address you should be fine, you might have to access your email through a different portal, or an e-mail client like outlook express. | |
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Anon
2008-Mar-5 11:28 pm
to Smith6612
uh. who cares about you email. duh. theres no money in that. | |
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open sourceI for one actually like this deal. The main good that would come out of is the fact that both aol and yahoo currently are open source friendly unlike Microsoft which would undoutibly kill anything that even resembles open source or runs on open source tech. Not to mention this helps keep sites like flickr alive as it entire based off open source servers. | |
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Noah VailOh God please no. Premium Member join:2004-12-10 SouthAmerica |
Like combining H2O and Water.Nearly all of my spyware victims are regular Yahoo! users. Although Yahoo! permits spyware to be channeled through the Overture network, Yahoo! is usually not the source.
It's that the users who are prone to the bad judgment that allows spyware installation are also prone to the bad judgment that convinces them that Yahoo!'s flash and clutter is somehow a rewarding and productive internet experience.
Which brings us to AOL; a sanctuary for those dedicated to internet incompetence. AOL at least makes some effort to minimize security risk (usually at the cost of ½ the users CPU cycles). They know their target audience and carefully limit their internet possibilities so as not to confuse them.
So I guess the plan is to stuff the walled garden so full of cluttery content, that the user is unable to notice the malware that is now just as trapped as he.
Progress has a new name. YAOL-hoo!
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Microsoft should by Google....Wait, isn't Google worth just about as much as Microsoft? I guess no hostile takeover of Google. Lol! | |
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cork1958Cork Premium Member join:2000-02-26 |
cork1958
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2008-Mar-6 9:03 am
Just a ploy?This is all just a ploy by Yahoo. It's all in the name of that almighty dollar! Let's talk, just a little bit, with everybody, and see how bad that teases MS. Maybe even get lucky and scarfed up by somebody for even more. Who knows? | |
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