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Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead
snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for breaking off the talks? That Microsoft was only interested in purchasing Yahoo's search business, not all of the company. 'Such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders,' the company said in a statement. The deal with Google allegedly involves Yahoo's search advertising business. The move likely will draw more ire from Icahn and may in fact remain part of the elaborate poker game between the two companies. Microsoft said this alternative transaction remains on the table and did not confirm that talks between it and Yahoo have concluded." Update: 06/12 23:58 GMT by T : CWmike writes "Just hours after saying it ended talks with Microsoft, Yahoo announced that it will start running advertising from Google alongside Yahoo search results. Yahoo expects the deal, which has a 10-year term, to generate $250 million to $450 million in operating cash flow during the first 12 months."
Because that is just want Microsoft wants to hear. Yahoo is teaming with Google. Burn baby burn.
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Goohoo.
That's like Czechoslovakia turning it's back on Britain and embracing Hitler.
Either way it spells hilarity. Surely a company with either name would be inherently incapable of evil.
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Or does this mean that both Google and Microsoft are gathering their own Borg collectives. I am so confused. Someone get me a glass of water, something with a snazzy brand name please....
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So first Yahoo doesn't want MS to buy them out. Next they don't like the fact that Microsoft only want part of the assets(instead of the entire company). Really, what does Yahoo wants? Sounds like asking your wife which restaurant for dinner. And she always says any one of them is fine, but just don't like the one you pick.
"Embraces Google Instead"
Next thing you know, Yahoo will be extending Google. And then, good Lord!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
...as if millions of chairs cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Goohoo!
Don't forget the !
I bet if there is one thing Yahoo would change in the combine name, they would make it Googlllle!
At least there'll only be one toolbar to remove from people's browsers...
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His various dot-com and VC projects have mostly cost him money (IIRC), his sports teams have mostly sucked, his 413 foot yacht has fallen to number 8 on the World's Largest Yacht list and Jimi Hendrix was, in hindsight, wildly overrated. Without the billions in his pocket to begin with, you wouldn't say he's doing that well.
On the plus side, he's nowhere near as appalling as the seven guys with bigger yachts than his.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I have always found it amusing that MSN returns 142,000 hits for Ubuntu while Goooogle returns 93,400,000 hits (and yahoo returns 174,000,000). Either MSN is filtering results or they just aren't indexing the web very well.
...thinking of those poor, unfortunate billionaires.
"You sound like the whiney "DON'T PICK ON BRITNEY, LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!" bitch. Perhaps you should make a YouTube video and give us all a good laugh. Otherwise, STFU yourself."
Double-bitch on YOU!
I don't even HAVE nor LISTEN to any Britney, and rarely knowingly dance to her. SO, quaDRUPAL DOUBLE-BITCH on you, you spent nuclear rod.
It's like cyphercell said:
"wait. google was there from the beginning of the msft talks and if the board can keep their company the way they want it, make more money in the long run and avoid being butchered by Icahn or Ballmer, then what is wrong with calling it the way it is?"
You must be a ballmer or icaan kiss-up. If you're a nerd who cares about software freedom, you would pull your head out and voice up for Yahoo! not being butchered. You see, I've NEVER been and NEVER WILL be an mshaft-fan-boy. Don't know that you ARE, but your attitude would probably let them off the hook.
Google's not perfect, but they're a damned welcome sight better than msoft. Haven't you stopped to consider that if corporate negative Karma exists that microsoft would have a HELL of a lot to answer for? Open your damned mind!
People like YOU are the insecure among us who slam-dunk me with - scores hoping to dissuade others from reading our rants and opinions. Yeh, much of what I write here is way off-beat humor, expression of outrage, and the occasional informative URL, but you, you are not making a convincing argument for why microsoft DESERVES to get its grubby mitts on Yahoo!
If mshaft is sooooooo innovative, the fuckers would never NEED to bid to buy Yahoo! Obviously, whether or NOT Google "won", Yahoo! is mshaft's admission that it sucks very much at trying to do what Google and Yahoo and MySpace, Facebook, and others DO do. So, mshaft needs to stick with core business and stop being omni-bit-vacious.
Besides, if mshaft gets a hold of Yahoo!, there will be some more thousands added to the rolls of the unemployed (even tho they stand to get generous anti-take-over severance packages...)...
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