Sinking feeling at Yahoo

I suppose Yahoo shareholders should be angry, but Microsoft shareholders should be angrier. This is a total waste of money, as Msft will earn nothing but short lived bragging rights from the deal. They won’t “fix” Yahoo, and will strangle it while integrating it.
Personally, I’d like to see the deal killed if no other reason than to prevent consolidation.

The biggest problem for Yahoo shareholders isn’t what Microsoft does or doesn’t decide. The biggest problem, as ALWAYS, is GOOGLE, who continues to suck up Yahoo’s market share like a shlurpy at 7-11.

Yahoo should reject the offer and retain their value. Anybody remember the Sprint-Nextel merger or the H-P / Compaq merger? Both of those two mergers resulted in a diminished market value for the involved companies while facing stiff competition within their industries. If Microsoft bought Yahoo, yahoo would have NO value whatsoever as the two companies’ would integrate resulting in less innovation and less market capitalization. I think Yahoo has such an innovative persona, only a company like Microsoft could put the brakes on it. A Yahoo / Google merger would be just as worthless.

When my web hosting ran into problems, and I called Yahoo for support, the voice recording said the MINIMUM hold time was 30 minutes. I waited on the phone for more than 2 hours with no hope of getting any one to take the call. I finally hanged up. That’s not just a one time event. I called again a few days later, and was put through it again. Yahoo is in trouble, big trouble.

What a great marriage this would be IF
Yahoo management could get out of their
sandbox and debate issues like keeping
their name/identity and stop pricing
their “toys”. Next come the class
action shareholder lawsuits!

Maybe this is a strategy by microsoft. They bluffing to see how Yahoo will react. The stock price drops and Microsoft can enter in an even lower bid.

I agree, Yahoo was holding out for more money, it seems 42 billion in an economy heading for recession is not enough for them -_-

Yep, Yahoo has troubles ahead and for them to act like they are worth alot more is hard to justify especially in the tech industry where values are not totalled by actual assests like most other industries are valued by. I hate to say it but if there is a confirmation of a no buy in the future, Yahoo’s shares will plummet and many will be very disappointed with their shares. Stand strong for a little while longer Yahoo, its may just come crashing down.

If I were MSFT, I would withdraw the offer right now…wait a few days for YHOO to drop back in the teens and then reoffer in the high 20’s.

We would then see how “motivated” teh YHOO board would be to take them up on it. Note to YHOO: YOU HAVE NO LEVERAGE!

Agree with the previous statement. MSFT might be known for being greedy, but Jerry Yang is just plain stupid. Stupid for thinking he can spurn MSFT and Yahoo shareholders by declining an offer at a 61% premium with no other bidders. I must say I would love to see MSFT walk from teh deal and YHOO go right back down into the teens. Jerry Yang will be out of a job so quick it will make his head spin.

Good job yahoo.. dont sell now to msft.. let the share tank to pennies and then sell to msft

I agree Yahoo is nothing more then a mess right now. Their Yahoo lite is a clone of google and a sad attempt at staying competative. They should just focus on using what they have and improve their all in one news/media source.

Stop trying to be the best search engine/data miner - google is already it.

Mergers don’t work. It will be a mess, and a waste of money for everyone.

HA HA! Greed is a b*tch. Yahoo management is going end up begging Microsoft to buy them for a much lower price. Say 22 a share?