Apple and Others Considering Bids for Yahoo?

No Yahoo

Think of all the companies that the Borg (M$) have assimilated.
How many times did Apple intervene?

Yahoo's the next victim, only this time I think it does more to hurt M$ than it hurts Yahoo.

And that's even if the acquisition is ever approved.

Let Yahoo! go. Let Apple focus on Machines, devicies and OSX.
 
fivepoint said:
Not true. This is a move towards a hostile takeover. All microsoft (or whoever decides to buy) has to prove is that the stockholders of Yahoo! would be better off if it were purchased. Yahoo! and it's board may not have a choice.

This has happened many times in the past. Wikipedia it.
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And MS is offering roughly 160% of the current stock price. It's going to be hard for the average Yahoo stock-holder to look at that and say "yeah, I don't want a 60% gain overnight."

I don't think Yahoo has much choice either.
 
This forum is a little biased, but I think it is safe to say that People Hate Microsoft. I am waiting to see a pie chart on CNN which says what percent of people hate Microsoft. In a way, it's similar to the lack of love for your electric company. People just don't like "utilities"! :)

I have used Yahoo! practically forever and always thought they were a little MS biased, but put up with it. Similar to FoxNews and CNN. I liked FoxNews better, but since you had to have WMV to watch video on Fox for the longest time, I just watch CNN with my Liberal filter set to high. I would drop my Yahoo! homepage and email in a blink if MS took control.

I really doubt that the SEC would ever let MS or Google purchase Yahoo! It would have to be third party folks like Apple or VZ or ATT or eek AOL :). Personally, I'd like to see Apple stay out of it because they have a great relationship with Google.

I fear this will be a milestone in the history of the Internet. I hope things are less "giant company owned" in the future!

From a schadenfreud (sp?) standpoint, it would be interesting to see how quick MS can reduce an iconic 14,000 person company to insignificance... :(
 
nomar383 said:
What does Apple do Web-wise? I mean besides iWeb and .Mac? They don't have a search engine or anything and MS already owns most of the Computers running the any search engine anyways. Who cares if MS takes Yahoo? (minus the Yahoo users lol)
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The only concern with MS gaining a dominating position on the web is that after they do you absolutely know that more and more websites will only work when they are viewed from Vista PCs. More competition on the web means a more open computer industry. Apple & Google both prefer that MS not acquire YHOO, Google because they are direct competitors and Apple only benefits indirectly. As is both YHOO and MS are dying on the web.
 
Man, this has got to make Microsoft even more hated in the Valley than ever, if that were possible.

I don't know if an Apple merger makes sense... what would they do, fold Yahoo into .Mac?

If Yahoo and Apple did merge they would have to work out a way for Yahoo to integrate without become competitors to Google. I don't know how that's possible.

What a bummer the whole thing is...
 
Apple would be better offering an 'open invitation' to yahoo employee's to apply 'en-mass' for newly created Internet engineering division for anyone in Yahoo who wants to leave.

Rather than spend $44.4 billion they could spend a quarter of that over the next few years by creating a dedicated 'Internet R&D' division within Apple and let 500 of the best Yahoo engineer's and teams work their magic on some new Apple centric internet technologies.

Google can mop up the rest - Let's see what kind of 'hot property' Microsoft acquires when 70% of it's best talent simply 'walks' to the open arms of Apple and Google..

There is nothing fundamentally about Yahoo that Apple could not re-create in a year with a ton of talented engineers.

BUT there are certainly a ton of companies Apple would be better buying before Yahoo.
 
At the rate that Google's stock is dropping (in three months going from $742.00 down to under $496.00) maybe MS should wait a few months and buy them instead.
 
Papajohn56 said:
If google bought Yahoo there'd be antitrust lawyers going crazy
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There is no indication that Google want to buy Yahoo, mainly because it would never be allowed but also it isn't worth buying. Instead the talks are about collaboration, putting their heads together and sharing technologies with, I would guess, both doing what they are best at. Yahoo has a lot of skills but has just been left behind and often tries to do too much, with Google handling the search and taking a few other elements off their hands Yahoo could concentrate on its strengths.

I personally doubt Apple have any interest in Yahoo, I can't see what it would add to the business, the markets are not really compatible and if Apple really wanted any of the elements of the business (other than search) it could probably go into them with relative ease.

I think this is a non-story, mainly designed to make MS increase their offer, I really doubt Apple even considered a purchase for more than a few seconds.
 
Mac-Addict said:
It would be great to have Flickr built into OS X but i just dont think its a thing Apple would do. Not forgetting Google Maps and Youtube are on the iPhone/iPod Touch so it seems Apple already has relationships with Google.
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Flickr on Apple TV. Yahoo Mail on iPhone. Yahoo search of Safari (for Windows). Apple works with both companies. Jerry Yang helped launch the iPhone.
 
whatever said:
At the rate that Google's stock is dropping (in three months going from $742.00 down to under $496.00) maybe MS should wait a few months and buy them instead.
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LOL that would be kind of wierd seing as google's ceo is on apple's board of directors
 
What use could Yahoo! possibly be to Apple if it were ever acquired? :confused:

I mean, Apple is doing fantastic already, so...?

Cheers! :apple:
 
No, no, no, no, a million times no. MS is buying YHOO because they are losing in the online advertising race to GOOG, not because YHOO has any magical intellectual property MS wants. AAPL is not in the online ad biz, and has absolutely NO reason to get into it.
 
Blah

I honestly don't care about Yahoo or Microsoft. I only care about Yahoo online game: Chess :D Whoever buy Yahoo - I hope they don't shut down the chess game.

Otherwise, google will need to make chess game so I can play online!!! where is the google's games??? :eek:
 
It seems to me that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo so it's craptacular search engine tech and online free email junk won't fall further and further behind. If they bought Yahoo, boom, there they are on the tail of Google again.

IMO, Microsoft (the corp, not a particular person) suffers badly from neighbor envy.
 
MacTO said:
What use could Yahoo! possibly be to Apple if it were ever acquired? :confused:

Cheers! :apple:
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It is perfectly reasonable to think that Apple could expand is innovation into a web portal. Think of .Mac, but with tighter integration to OS X and the iPhone. I can imagine some slick features. Apple could simplify a whole lot of aspects of my life taking on a bigger Internet presence...

Remember, there were MP3 players before the iPod! :D

It's possible Apple has considered this, but as another person already mentioned, the cost to hire away Yahoo! employees and create a new division is much cheaper.

If Apple were to do it and upset Google, they better hurry up and find an alternative for YouTube and Maps on the iPhone!
 
Also the loss of Zimbra as a growing Exchange competitor, and other properties removed from the landscape.

Though, I'm sure Zimbra engineers could get jobs at GOOG or APPL.
 
Avicdar said:
Apple deplete its cash reserves (and go into debt) to acquire Yahoo?

lol!
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Well to be fair usually having a cash reserve isn't that great for a company. Basically the way lots of people or investors see it is that if you spend money, you make money. Basically all that money is sitting in the bank collecting dust when it should be being spent trying to make more money.

While i agree that Apple shouldn't buy Yahoo (that would be a disaster) i really think they should put that money to some use. Even if it's just some promotion or charity, at least then they gain some more exposure.
 
actually i'd like to see MSFT buy yahoo and f up their company even more (this is of course coming from someone who has never used or cared about yahoo though)
 
It'll certainly be interesting to see what happens ;

One thing's for sure it re-enforces the pact between Apple and Google and the MS-YAHOO merger sets a precedent for a search engine/OS-TECH company tie up.

If it's successful I genuinely seriously wonder for the first time how long it will be before Apple and Google join forces and merge.
 
Google deserve their success, if Microsoft tie up with Yahoo, their success will be down to forcing IE users to search via a Yahoo toolbar.
80% of the internet use Internet Explorer.

(P.S I use Safari)
 
FakeWozniak said:
It is perfectly reasonable to think that Apple could expand is innovation into a web portal. Think of .Mac, but with tighter integration to OS X and the iPhone. I can imagine some slick features. Apple could simplify a whole lot of aspects of my life taking on a bigger Internet presence...

Remember, there were MP3 players before the iPod! :D

It's possible Apple has considered this, but as another person already mentioned, the cost to hire away Yahoo! employees and create a new division is much cheaper.

If Apple were to do it and upset Google, they better hurry up and find an alternative for YouTube and Maps on the iPhone!
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AAPL would be foolish to compete with GOOG. They have a great working relationship, and GOOG OWNS internet services (and there's really no alternative to YouTube). AAPL can currently enjoy the fruits of GOOG's labor with a good relationship, or they can try it themselves for billions of $, huge efforts of manpower, and probably come up with a product not as good as GOOG's. So why would they even bother trying? Let AAPL stick to what it knows, and GOOG stick to what it knows. No need to step on each others' toes.

Mitch1984 said:
Google deserve their success, if Microsoft tie up with Yahoo, their success will be down to forcing IE users to search via a Yahoo toolbar.
80% of the internet use Internet Explorer.
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That may be all they need to do to salvage their online ad biz. As IE vs Netscape demonstrated, all you have to do is make yours the default service, and it'll win by sheer volume.
 
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