Microsoft drops bid for Yahoo

Yahoo is a big company. Feedburner is a joke.

As I said YouTube is the only exception

 

Hi,

If I were a Yahoo stockholder I would be trembling right now waiting to see what happens to that stock on Monday (tomorrow). My prognosis is that it will drop below the $18 it was per share when the bid came in making matters worse. On top of that Yahoo is not doing good financially at some point they will need to start letting employees go.

What I see are law suits from the stockholders and possibly a class action from employees if they are infact let go because of financial difficulty.

I am impressed that Microsoft did not go for a hostile takeover. This way they have put ALL the burden on Yahoo. If that stock drops below the $18 level, Microsoft could come in and pay less than the $33/share they were offering.

This is not going to go well for Yahoo. A complete inability to grow and adapt to changing market conditions!

 

What about the acquisition of double click, its such a large take over it has to be done over 3 years.

Google has had some big take overs.

As for this microsoft/yahoo deal I think it would have been good for it to happen.

 

Yahoo missed an opportunity here. Now Microsoft has the upper hand and the pressure is on. Their stock will take a beating in the next coupe of days and Microsoft will make another take it or leave it offer, which Yahoo will have no choice but to accept. Yahoo should have taken the offer, it was a reasonable one, and it would have been good for us webmasters.

 

Well the people who bought Yahoo at $19 and sold in the $30's made a killing. I highly highly highly doubt Google would even consider buying Yahoo. There is absolutely no point.

I'm sure people wouldn't mind using Microsoft and Yahoo to serve ads, but their programs are complete garbage at this point. Instead of trying to take Google head on, why don't they improve their technologies?

 

Good for hotmail... I really think Yahoo is asking too much than what it's worth..

 

Agreed, those who sold at $30 probably did make a killing, but complete garbage? Hmmm. In my 8 years experience, I've found that together Y and M deliver more traffic than G, and MSN traffic converts significantly better. Significantly. There's gold in that thar garbage, friend.

This from the NYT:

Yahoo's actual value is probably a lot closer to $12-$15 a share. Microsoft would have been doing their shareholders a grave disservice by paying a $20 a share premium.

Just my 2 cents.

 

To give everyone an update:

Yahoo shares fall 16 percent after Microsoft withdraws bid:

The rest of the article is here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_yahoo


Edit: Bruce beat me to it lol

 

bye bye Yahoo... bought a future package short on Yahoo

 

I agree 100% there is gold in the garbage. However, their ads are nowhere near as targeted as Google. You have to dig through a lot of garbage to find the gold If Yahoo, and MSN could make their ad serving technology equal to that of Google, or any company in general, then I will be more than happy to use a variation.

In my experience Google has brought 10x's more traffic then Yahoo and MSN, sometimes even combined.

 

Yahoo knows MS weak point, and that's why raises $ 4 / share .

MS is now not thinking to buy it, even in that much amount of cost he can create 2 companies like yahoo.

 

Microsoft widthdraw bid lol

 

MS going to get it cheaper in a few months???

 

I think if the deal drags on for a while yahoo could go lower then 20 again :|

 

I think Yahoo missed a good deal here. Yahoo is falling and Microsoft probably could of helped rebuld them.

 

Yahoo price per share now is 23,8.. Yahoo falling down