Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid

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#1 whoody12
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yes, Yahoo thinks the bid of MS is too low, according to an insider

full article

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120257515426256541.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

~W

and sorry if this is old

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Microsoft suck but they have a huge monopoly. Yahoo sucks even more but they have nothing. They should be thankful anyone is interested in them in the first place.
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#3 jekyll
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All it means is Microsoft may raise their bid. Or they'll just attempt a hostile takeover. This is a big risk Yahoo's taking.
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I'm glad that Yahoo will be telling them to stick it. We don't need Microsoft becoming an even bigger monopoly.

That's not to say that Microsoft won't up their offer or go down the hostile takeover route.

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I'm glad that Yahoo will be telling them to stick it. We don't need Microsoft becoming an even bigger monopoly.

That's not to say that Microsoft won't up their offer or go down the hostile takeover route.

zeus_gb

Microsoft should be getting bigger and better, and it was a stupid mistake that Yahoo made to reject the offer from Microsoft.

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#6 whoody12
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[QUOTE="zeus_gb"]

I'm glad that Yahoo will be telling them to stick it. We don't need Microsoft becoming an even bigger monopoly.

That's not to say that Microsoft won't up their offer or go down the hostile takeover route.

maroela2

Microsoft should be getting bigger and better, and it was a stupid mistake that Yahoo made to reject the offer from Microsoft.

why ? MS would only raise prices if they gain complete monopoly

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#7 zeus_gb
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[QUOTE="zeus_gb"]

I'm glad that Yahoo will be telling them to stick it. We don't need Microsoft becoming an even bigger monopoly.

That's not to say that Microsoft won't up their offer or go down the hostile takeover route.

maroela2

Microsoft should be getting bigger and better, and it was a stupid mistake that Yahoo made to reject the offer from Microsoft.

Microsoft don't get better they get worse because they control more of the market and can use their dominant market position to stifle competition. We've seen it so many times before.
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why would microsoft want yahoo? they have msn anyway why not spend money trying to improve that and get it out there...
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#9 zeus_gb
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why would microsoft want yahoo? they have msn anyway why not spend money trying to improve that and get it out there...muppet1010
Google is getting a lot more traffic than Yahoo or MSN search is. More traffic more ad revenue.

When Microsoft sees something that might help them get a better market share they don't improve their own software they just take over a company or two.

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#10 Buffalo_Soulja
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Ugh... they deserve each other.
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why would microsoft want yahoo? they have msn anyway why not spend money trying to improve that and get it out there...muppet1010
lol
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why would microsoft want yahoo? they have msn anyway why not spend money trying to improve that and get it out there...muppet1010

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#13 muppet1010
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my point was yahoo is failing nearly as bad as msn compared to google. Add them together and they still lack anything google has quite miserabley.
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#14 kirk4ever
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yeah i heard..yahoo says they want $12 billion eXtra.. :o
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#15 Kev_Boy
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I personally have found better hits searching Yahoo than Google, but it flip-flops a little so sometimes Google'll give me better hits but usually Yahoo's my preference.
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#16 NSR34GTR
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i dont care if they buy them or not