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Why Yahoo Turned Microsoft Down

Posted by kdawson on from the you-scratch-my-back dept.

quarterbuck writes "The NYTimes has up a great blog post that explains a bit of the backstory behind the Yahoo-Microsoft No-deal. While Jerry Yang did not want to sell the company, it is not likely that he could have said No to Microsoft, and explained it to shareholders, without the help of Google. The article gives reasons behind Google's tossing a lifeline to its biggest competitor, and the 'coop-etition' that has been going on between the two companies, which both emerged out of Stanford University."

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  1. Jerry has an irrational fear by Nimey · · Score: 5, Funny

    of chairs.

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    1. Re:Jerry has an irrational fear by Cyclops · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't worry Jerry, all the chairs have been occupied in Portugal ;)

  2. Google and Yahoo should team up by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only together can they defeat Microsoft, and rule the world as a monopoly so strong that even God will fall to his knees before them!

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    1. Re:Google and Yahoo should team up by Luyseyal · · Score: 4, Funny

      Were you thinking of:

      You can destroy the Emperor. He has foreseen this. It is your destiny. Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son. Come with me. It is the only way.

      -l

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  3. Re:good luck yang by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The opening of his speech will be "Okay, so I lost you all of a shitload of money. But the important thing is, we stuck it to the big, bad Microsoft! WHO'S WITH ME?" There is more to the speech, but it's unlikely he'll be able to speak coherently after that, what with his lungs filling with blood.

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  4. It's a Stanford conspiracy! by engineerErrant · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's really the crux of all of this. The fact that the founders of both went to Stanford is hard proof of what I've always said: they are all part of a secret railroad monopoly plan hatched by Leland Stanford in the 1800s.

    That's why he orchestrated the Hoover presidency and built the linear accelerator facility, which looks like the all-seeing eye when seen from the air. Google is really just a corporate front for the Stanford band, whose shadowy aim is to take over the world from their trailer, where Leland Stanford is kept cryogenically frozen!

    The world, I say!

    1. Re:It's a Stanford conspiracy! by C0vardeAn0nim0 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Google is really just a corporate front for the Stanford band, whose shadowy aim is to take over the world from their trailer, where Leland Stanford is kept cryogenically frozen! frozen inside the emptied rack of a sun E10k, right ???

      * for those who didn't get the joke, sun microsystems took it's name from the acronym Stanford University Network.
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  5. Jerry's statement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jerry's sentiment was that he mismanaged Yahoo into it's present situation, and he would prefer to mismanage Yahoo out of it all by himself.

  6. Re:Time will tell... by jollyplex · · Score: 2, Funny

    I always trust finance.yahoo.com to deliver a fair and balanced report on the strength of Yahoo stock.