Comments on: Maryam on Yahoo’s rejection of Microsoft

By: dc crowley

dc crowley — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:18:10 +0000

I was for a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo but not in a possible combination with News Corp. I think the Yahoo board will have a very tough next 2 years. They did stupid things to avoid the deal. It might have seemed very clever at the time. It was nothing more than a panic reaction. Yahoo can’t get where it wants to get on it’s own, but Google is not their friend whatever they think. I hope for their sake that my gut feeling is wrong.

By: Taking the Bridge » No Maryam Yahoo is not Crazy, Microsoft is the wrong partner

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:57:31 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:11:53 +0000

Yahoo! will do just fine without Microsoft. As a longtime Yahoo! user, I fear that Microsoft is buying out Yahoo! simply to eliminate the competition, not out of an interest to acquire Yahoo!’s technology, methods, presentation or even traffic.

The longer this drags out and the more hostile it becomes, the more apparent Microsoft’s evil intention becomes.

By: Will Microsoft send in the Stormtroopers to Yahoo? — Channel Marker

Will Microsoft send in the Stormtroopers to Yahoo? — Channel Marker — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:07:54 +0000

[...] tech blogger Robert Scoble says Yahoo is “probably (crazy) and arrogant, too” for rejecting Microsoft’s deal, and the only logical reason for saying no is to drive the price up. One of his readers, [...]

By: Christopher Coulter

Christopher Coulter — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:13:38 +0000

They aren’t crazy. They are sane. Future’s not so bright for Yahoo, but it’s even less under Microsoft with all the energy-sapping duplicational-merger political-warfare games, that are a sure result.

By: Kevin Heisler

Kevin Heisler — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:27:55 +0000

Scoble from high in the Swiss Alps: what’s your 20 thousand foot view on the technology integration challenges faced by Microsoft? Can you break it down for us – division by division?

How would you recommend Microsoft handle global integration?

Are there any Microsoft integrations in the past you’d point to – although not on this scale – that might provide a road map for how a merger might work?

And let’s say Yahoo fights to the finish … ends up outsourcing search to Google. Then what for Yahoo? Crippling blow … or fire in the belly?

For Microsoft – how many years do you think the desktop will be dominant? What should their play be in online advertising if Yahoo falls through?

And is Blodget really smarter than Ballmer and Gates?