Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) which tried to buy Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) several years ago maybe coming back around for another shot.
According to Reuters, Microsoft is weighing a potential bid for Yahoo.
Of course Yahoo already has a search deal with Microsoft, and Microsoft has tried to buy Yahoo in 2008, offering to pay as much as $47.5 billion or $33 a share, before to be turned down by the company.
As we reported the other day the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba is also interested in Yahoo.
Shares of Yahoo were up over 10% today closing at almost $16 a share
It’s nice if it stays in US hands, eh?
Microsoft already loses $4 billion per year with Bing … if MS buys Yahoo may double this figure
“Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) which tried to buy Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) several years ago”
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Have you ever placed a statement like that in the context of tribal people in the jungles of Australia, Africa or the Amazon ?
It is amazing how many **assumptions** domainers make about how U.S. laws and corporate structures dominate the world.
Imagine a CyberSpace where those ASSumptions do not carry any weight.
Some people may prefer that CyberSpace – Sell to the market 🙂
microsoft wants users. because they are destined to lose users, as their products’ inferiority becomes known to more users who are being exposed to better products by other companies.
the solution: buy better technology and buy users.
they take a huge stake in facebook and make a sociopathic kid the world’s youngest billionaire.
they buy skype.
they get instant user base without doing any work.
how many users do they get by acquiring yahoo?
how much overlap is there with bing?
New MMORPG in the works – codenamed “DC” – medeival in nature. Very good source – launches in 2013.
Supposed to be the best MMORPG ever created – free play.
Doesn’t matter who buys Yahoo. It’s a dead company.
Just like AOL. It was spun off from Time Warner with big plans… FAIL!
Internet users look for the hot new thing and Yahoo AINT the hot new thing.
AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, RIM are so 1995 to 2005 and that’s it.
Do you think Apple, Google, Facebook, Foursquare etc will buy Yahoo? No.
Yahoo bring nothing to the table. Crazy to ask but do they even have anything proprietary?
@Apple Rumor,
DC prolly stands for Dark Castle
RIP, Steve Jobs
Yes indeed
RIP Steve Jobs
Yahoo has crazy hollywood, movie, marketing and entertainment contracts outside of of the BS that might be relevant to a PPC world. Search is not everything with Yahoo – albeit MS should pick it up
“It’s a dead company.”
true
“today closing at almost $16 a share”
very hard to believe that someone buys Yahoo for $23 billion today
it’s real value is of a couple of billion at the best
I think Yahoo will increase Microsoft popularity. hope that this time their deal will come to success and at the end. buying shares is not a good deal they offers at 2008. I think they have to sell it as whole.
agree with brianwick.
although working through all those agmts, all yahoo’s obligations and rights, might be a nightmare. how many are actually beneficial to ms?
as for apple rumor and hammertime, i have the 90’s on hold, shall i put her through? she wants you back. it appears ms’s vaporware tactic is STILL working. 10 years later. unbelievable.
it’s ok to live in the 90’s if you like old games and don’t mind emulators- ms is still king there. but if you really think ms is going to have the “next big thing” in this decade or the next, and i don’t mean just the next big rumor or the next big cool demo (which are themselves remarkably effetive), you are delusional.
it hasn’t happened in over a decade.
they’re still making billions with the new old thing. where’s the incentive to innovate? you’ll have to back to the 90’s or earlier to find it.
unless you count xbox.
RIP Crazy Ones