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Apple and Others Considering Bids for Yahoo?
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THAT IS AWESOME!
Google wants to help fend off Microsoft!?!? Could you imagine if google just gave Yahoo money to support themselves? It is like promoting the competition.
Of course, Google has incentives to not let Microsoft partner with a search engine. 90-95% of all computers suddenly use Yahoo as a default search? Thats not good for Google.
It would be very cool if Google helped out Apple and Apple got its own search engine. Yay for ad revenue! I might actually start using Yahoo! Dont know how it would really help them but with a push for mobility it couldn't hurt to have an engine at their disposal.
Google wants to help fend off Microsoft!?!? Could you imagine if google just gave Yahoo money to support themselves? It is like promoting the competition.
Of course, Google has incentives to not let Microsoft partner with a search engine. 90-95% of all computers suddenly use Yahoo as a default search? Thats not good for Google.
It would be very cool if Google helped out Apple and Apple got its own search engine. Yay for ad revenue! I might actually start using Yahoo! Dont know how it would really help them but with a push for mobility it couldn't hurt to have an engine at their disposal.
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is supposed to be $44 billion. To put this into perspective, that is the revenue that Apple would make from selling 110 million iPhones. For $44 billion, Apple can give a free Mac Pro to every Mac user. Or buy the complete music recording industry. Why would they want to spend that money on Yahoo?
I'd rather see Apple use the money (not just their cash, but the stock and debt they'd have to issue to match, much less beat, Microsoft's offer) on new products and enhancements to existing products.
90-95% of all computers in Europe would be forced to run Linux because the EU would come down on Microsoft so hard.
There is no way that Microsoft ships a single copy of Windows with a Microsoft-owned Yahoo search engine set as default.
It's only indirectly about the search-engine business. While it does drive online advertising, it is the actual advertising contracts MS wants. GOOG currently controls ~40% of the online ad biz. MS has ~15%, and YHOO ~25% (numbers from Friday's NY Times, roughly). A merged MS-YHOO will give them about as much of a share as GOOG, and make them a viable competitor. People will still go to Google, because it's the default search engine in most peoples' minds. But MS will earn a lot more money from their ad biz than they do now.
Like other's have said, this is all rumor to raise the price for MS.
That being said, Apple will never buy Yahoo for one reason: Apple is a hardware company that produces software/services mainly to drive hardware sales. Acquiring Yahoo does nothing to add to this strategy.
That being said, Apple will never buy Yahoo for one reason: Apple is a hardware company that produces software/services mainly to drive hardware sales. Acquiring Yahoo does nothing to add to this strategy.
Zimbra competes with Google Apps... so I have a hard time seeing that... I could possibly see APPL taking the Zimbra piece from MS as part of a spin off to make anti-trust concerns go away... but I don't know that APPL wants to get into the server application market... so far their offerings are kinda paltry...
Was Jobs quoted as telling an employee that if he's interested in the enterprise market he should find a job at another company?
I'd say MS buying Yahoo would suck for Zimbra employees and customers.
90-95% of all computers in Europe would be forced to run Linux because the EU would come down on Microsoft so hard.
There is no way that Microsoft ships a single copy of Windows with a Microsoft-owned Yahoo search engine set as default.
Why not? MSN Search is already the default... what's the difference?
I think you've got a pretty good point here
Buy the music recording industry! DRM free music for 50 cents!
I feel that Yahoo still has strong roots. Let me remind you that Yahoo was the Google of the 90s and as Yahoo, Google can become what is of the company.
Anyway I think Microsoft taking over Yahoo is pointless it will only give them 25% of the web market. Which is nothing compared to Google. But Yahoo has lots of investments, as in Flckr, and other Web Ad Agencies. Just because Yahoo is doing bad doesn't mean its going to sell, it can totally recover selling an investment.
Although partnering Yahoo and Apple will be good, like Google and AOL now partnered up.
Anyway I think Microsoft taking over Yahoo is pointless it will only give them 25% of the web market. Which is nothing compared to Google. But Yahoo has lots of investments, as in Flckr, and other Web Ad Agencies. Just because Yahoo is doing bad doesn't mean its going to sell, it can totally recover selling an investment.
Although partnering Yahoo and Apple will be good, like Google and AOL now partnered up.
I agree, just for the combined names of the three companies. This will be an interesting turnout
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Apple should just leave them alone...
I do have an email from yahoo and i pay £12 a year for it and totally happy but right now YAHOO is not a big deal for Apple at all...
Google can buy Yahoo! they can kinda merge and big up the internet industry!
and finally if MS buys YAHOO, they will mess up and share market will not be happy!!!
Apple should just leave them alone...
I do have an email from yahoo and i pay £12 a year for it and totally happy but right now YAHOO is not a big deal for Apple at all...
Google can buy Yahoo! they can kinda merge and big up the internet industry!
and finally if MS buys YAHOO, they will mess up and share market will not be happy!!!
Nope ... not that simple....
Microsoft doesn't even have enough cash to complete this merger at the offered price. They offered 50% stock and 50% cash in this deal, which actually poses a problem for MS because their stock dropped in the last few days of trading. (So they're offering Yahoo a deal worth less money than it was when the idea first came up.)
This seems to be all about Steve Balmer believing MS would benefit from all the ad revenue Yahoo generates (over $5 billion a year compared to MSN's $1.2 billion or so).
The thing is, I doubt MS could leave Yahoo's assets alone after a takeover. They'd have an immediate conflict of interest in several key areas (EG. They'd own both Hotmail and Yahoo email services, requiring some sort of migration to get everyone under one "roof".) It's far from a guarantee that Yahoo's current yearly ad revenue would stay in the same place after MS takes them over.
Most likely, Yahoo stockholders won't see the benefit to MS doing this takeover, nor will most MS stockholders. So this won't go through. MS will have to up the ante to be successful, and right now - they can't really afford to do it (their stock is too depressed right now).
Microsoft doesn't even have enough cash to complete this merger at the offered price. They offered 50% stock and 50% cash in this deal, which actually poses a problem for MS because their stock dropped in the last few days of trading. (So they're offering Yahoo a deal worth less money than it was when the idea first came up.)
This seems to be all about Steve Balmer believing MS would benefit from all the ad revenue Yahoo generates (over $5 billion a year compared to MSN's $1.2 billion or so).
The thing is, I doubt MS could leave Yahoo's assets alone after a takeover. They'd have an immediate conflict of interest in several key areas (EG. They'd own both Hotmail and Yahoo email services, requiring some sort of migration to get everyone under one "roof".) It's far from a guarantee that Yahoo's current yearly ad revenue would stay in the same place after MS takes them over.
Most likely, Yahoo stockholders won't see the benefit to MS doing this takeover, nor will most MS stockholders. So this won't go through. MS will have to up the ante to be successful, and right now - they can't really afford to do it (their stock is too depressed right now).
Nay
Apple + Google > Apple + Yahoo > Microsoft + Yahoo
I think Google would be a much better choice in terms of a partnership. Of course could Apple realistically bid, buy, and then sell to Microsoft at a higher price? I don't see why not - but anything of the sort would hurt any chances of them with Google.
Apple + Google > Apple + Yahoo > Microsoft + Yahoo
I think Google would be a much better choice in terms of a partnership. Of course could Apple realistically bid, buy, and then sell to Microsoft at a higher price? I don't see why not - but anything of the sort would hurt any chances of them with Google.
Apple doesn't need Yahoo!. Acquiring Yahoo! wouldn't make Apple that much better. It would differentiate them even more than other computer manufacturers but its not what Apple needs. They make quality hardware, develop the best OS, and have industry leading support services. They don't have enough money to buy Yahoo! unless Yahoo! takes a lot less money just to spite Microsoft. I think Microsoft will eventually buy them out and then everyone that uses Yahoo! mail can anxiously wait to having those accounts converted to Windows Live mail accounts.