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LiewCF Tech Blog: Microsoft Offer to Buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

  • Rice Blogger · 1 year ago
    wow......this is big......this is not very good news...I would prefer 3 way war....in case two guys decided to work together.
  • Syahid A. · 1 year ago
    Another cunning ploy of Microsoft. So I guess the name will be changed to "MicroHoo" or "YaMic". :D
  • Ash · 1 year ago
    I think if the acquisition happens, it will benefit Microsoft more than Yahoo. Yahoo should look around for other players before saying yes to Microsoft. Microsoft needs Yahoo more. That's why they are willing to pay $44 billion. Do we know of any other company that is able to pay such a large sum of money? Google I suppose!!!
  • affuan · 1 year ago
    big enuff for us malaysian. :o
  • Fahmishah · 1 year ago
    big! very big number! i cant wait for the result
  • Eddie Law · 1 year ago
    This is a wise move by Microsoft as in internet world either you are BIG or you are out.
  • Orange · 1 year ago
    Don't forget that theres always a bigger fish.
  • Great · 1 year ago
    That gives some serious thinking for google to do. Its a good deal for microsoft but i am very interested to see what happens in upcoming months. will Google do anything about it?
  • stevewy · 1 year ago
    why buying a company for 44.6 billion just because they wanted to compete against google?

    if im google, with the current strong IT team, i think its possible to develope new google operating system to fight against MS liaw...

    Syahid A:
    fast fast pergi register domain name “MicroHoo” or “YaMic” lohh...maybe billy gates wana buy frm u offering 44.6billion...ringgit :p
  • AhTim · 1 year ago
    It's a technology war in year 2008!

    --blog for dream--
  • myson · 1 year ago
    is there any benefit for me from the deal

    i only use bloggers...

    somebody update me
  • lankapo · 1 year ago
    hmm at least Uncle G's monopoly will face new competition :)
    and maybe YMC will bring new source of income hopefully
  • ITrush · 1 year ago
    This is going to be a big hit, keep us posted liewcf.
  • ChampDog · 1 year ago
    Interesting to know the outcome. I don't think this will be big threat to Google anyway.
  • zaifulzin · 1 year ago
    good move for microsoft and also yahoo share holder....i dont know what will happened if only two big players left in this industry...can you all tell you imagination to me...
  • Jack · 1 year ago
    :( arhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! microsoft better hands off my beloved flickr.com!!!!!!!!................... fu*k off microsoft!!!!!!!!!!
  • rem · 1 year ago
    yerp.steve balmer even said they are on track! dem,they are very serious considering buying yahoo.i hope that wont happen.now we have msn-google-yahoo.imagine later on we only have google as the ONLY rival to microsoft.oh no!~
  • ChampDog · 1 year ago
    I thought I read somewhere they already rejected the offer. They said the offer $ underestimate them. :)
  • Larry · 1 year ago
    Yes the offer was rejected, my guess is that this is only the beginning of the courtship by Microsoft.

    Both Yahoo & MSN cannot compete with Google individually and Yahoo is worth far more to Microsoft than $44bil. But even combined, they don't have a product to counter Google Adwords.
  • Mr. Bear · 1 year ago
    I think ms might offer even more to buy yahoo soon. I do agree that MS offered too little for the yahoo founder/investors to give up so much.

    No harm for M$ to offer 10x more for yahoo in consideration of the latter potential and future earnings.

    Unless of course the purpose was to get rid of yahoo. Buy it and remove it.
  • ChampDog · 1 year ago
    If I were MS, I won't buy yahoo at all. As Larry said, even if they combined, they can't compete with Google as well. May as well use the money for other stuff (e.g. hire more creative ppl to implement more creative products).
  • Larry · 1 year ago
    Hi ChampDog, from my research it sems that Yahoo is market leader in the so-called Display Ads segment (ie banner & flash/multimedia ads). If combined with MSN they are a powerful force. There is a post on my blog about this:

    http://www.netallianz.com/gallery/2008/02/09/on...

    The MS move is more an aggressive than defensive one. They are trying to block off Google in a fast growing area. Meanwhile Google is experiencing slow down in Adwords growth, which may explain why a lot of publishers are complaining about declining Adsense PPC ;)
  • Vink · 1 year ago
    Throughout the past two years Google has been on a huge exapnsion drive. Microsoft has realised this and instead of attempting to but up smaller entities it has just decided to grab the biggest fish - Yahoo.

    I guess its time to show Google who is the bigger cat in this business