Comments on: BREAKING: MICROSOFT WALKS

By: Microsoft Backs Down from Yahoo | StepForth Web Marketing Inc.

Microsoft Backs Down from Yahoo | StepForth Web Marketing Inc. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:15:42 +0000

[...] The web is afire with the news that after its latest bid attempt to takeover Yahoo failed, Microsoft decided to back down. My desktop news widget is going wild with this news… updating every 30s or so with more updates from Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Forbes, Information Week, CNet News, etc; hot news indeed. All those big time journals aside it appears that BoomTown’s Kara Swisher was the first to break the news. [...]

By: MicroHoo: The Odd Couple Meetings Led Nowhere | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:59:55 +0000

[...] After today’s events, I guess you could say Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) tried, holding a series of meetings about a possible takeover that ended up proving exactly how incompatible the companies were. [...]

By: Microsoft Walks On By - Yahoo! | All about MICROSOFT

Microsoft Walks On By - Yahoo! | All about MICROSOFT — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:12:01 +0000

[...] BREAKING MICROSOFT WALKS Kara Swisher BoomTown AllThingsD [...]

By: “Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Doesn’t Understand Blogging” « socialTNT

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:51 +0000

[...] Jump to Comments This weekend, all eyes turned to the blogosphere to watch as the Microhoo deal fell through. Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo, also turned to blogging to plead his case. Sadly, the blog became a PR [...]

By: Yahoo is the big loser, but Microsoft isn’t far behind | Thought Stream: Nitin Badjatia's Weblog

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:46:54 +0000

[...] yesterday afternoon. A great behind the scenes view of what happened was posted by Kara Swisher here. Earlier this week, a much smaller – almost insignificant – deal apparently collapsed as Microsoft [...]

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:47:36 +0000

No harm done to Microsoft. They’ve screwed over another competitor. Microsoft corporate philosophy has always been zero-sum based, with hurting another company always at least as valuable as helping themselves.

I’m sure that as we type MS is working on other ways to poison the Internet well for everyone, since they can’t control it completely.

Yahoo will survive in some form, if only as a subsidiary to some other company, but even so, this will be better for their customers than their fate would at Microsoft. MS has no friends, and rightly so.

By: Harald Felgner

Harald Felgner — Sun, 04 May 2008 04:09:26 +0000

Three months of hoping, worrying, discussing, threatening, approaching, retracting, ignoring, and raising are over.

By: Charles Hui

Charles Hui — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:37:31 +0000

I want to sharpen my above point. MSFT qietly buys some YHOO shares until they know some big shareholders are willing to fight the proxy with MSFT.

By: Charles Hui

Charles Hui — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:16:28 +0000

Only a fool will make such a move at this point of market moment.

Second, why not MSFT quietly buys some YHOO shares when it drops to mid or low 20’s.

By: Bernard Moon

Bernard Moon — Sun, 04 May 2008 01:54:23 +0000

Might be a regret for Yahoo! in the end.

By: sun tzu

sun tzu — Sun, 04 May 2008 00:48:49 +0000

great move steve – integration risks outweigh any potential scale issue. Yahoo will never see the 30’s again