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BREAKING: Microsoft Proposes Yahoo! Takeover at $31 per Share (44 Billion $ Takeover)
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I knew he'd be in here somewhere...
There is in fact other countries other than the United States of America.
Try getting from Brisbane to Sydney with Yahoo maps on your next holiday down under.
Google can get me there...
I knew he'd be in here somewhere...
There is in fact other countries other than the United States of America.
Try getting from Brisbane to Sydney with Yahoo maps on your next holiday down under.
Google can get me there...
my friend, take it easy and have a bottle of beer. chill. all these business mean nothing if we cannot take care our planet - global warming. let's not get into the politics - killing the middle eastern. Million $ here, Billion $ there... so what? the fxcuking sea level rise, screw the ecosystem; tell me what can Microsoft and Google, or Apple do? "yeah, take off to the moon".
many of us are only looking at the present. Let's just leave it here.
Bingo. While Google has been releasing good products, buying up companies and either improving or keeping them the same, Microsoft has been known to extend embrace and extinguish. If Google bought Yahoo, Flickr would either be cooler or the same, but Microsoft will be far more interested in using Flickr (and other Yahoo! services) in order to further Windows. That's bad for Mac users and bad in general for everything they've touched. Furthermore, Microsoft has a mediocre track-record with their web-offerings, so I can't imagine that Yahoo! is going to become a better company with this merger.
Well, name one company that has managed to retain its dominance in any industry over a long period of time. I can't.
At some point, Microsoft is going to see it's extinction-level event, so to speak. IBM is a ghost of what it once was, I can't see that Microsoft is agile enough to avoid the same fate at some point.
"Hello 'macuser512', in order to use Microsoft Windows Live Photo, you must first install the Microsoft Windows Live Photo client."
*clicks on link*
"Please confirm you are a Windows Genuine User by downloading the Windows Genuine User verifier".
DAMMIT!
Oh, and I don't like Yahoo. I never use it.
Yahoo answers = trash
Yahoo services = Slow
*clicks on link*
"Please confirm you are a Windows Genuine User by downloading the Windows Genuine User verifier".
DAMMIT!
Oh, and I don't like Yahoo. I never use it.
Yahoo answers = trash
Yahoo services = Slow
Would anyone even care?
Let's see I have Apple TV in my house and I have my Macs in my house. The two see each other. My Apple TV can view my iPhoto Library (either locally or via a stream) and see the pictures in their RAW format.
Having Flickr in Apple TV is cool I guess, but it's not a show stopper. There's been barely any mention that Steve Jobs couldn't even get it to work during his keynote.
Just another example of you get what you pay for. I wouldn't be surprised if either MS or Yahoo, just pulls the plug on that one.
1. Most likely it will. Ballmer has already told Yahoo! they will do everything they can to get Yahoo!. Which means, with or without the Yahoo! board's approval, MSFT will take this to the shareholders. Good timing, too, after Yang basically confirmed that their turnaround plans were not working.
2. Gosh, I would love to sell something to Microsoft. Your first offer out of the box, and it is a premium of 62%?? Someone at MSFT needs to learn basic negotiation skills.
3. I rue the day that MSFT engineers get their hands on Yahoo!'s code. Everything at Yahoo will be buggy and look like Vista. One thing is for sure, you can probably count open technologies goodbye. Yahoo! Maps will not work with Safari anymore.
Because they are tasteless soulless *******s that have stagnated the technology industry for years, and I hate them with a disproportionate passion.
The sooner they are gone, the sooner mankind can start innovating again.
I love Apple. I like Microsoft. IMHO a lot of credit should be given to MS. Sure they acted with a big stick and smashed competition at times, but let's face it, any company with a dominant position in the market can and should do those things.
They also have done a ton of good for the industry. The IT industry without MS would have had some other "evil empire" to hate. (perhaps even Apple itself) Nature hates a vacuum
They also have done a ton of good for the industry. The IT industry without MS would have had some other "evil empire" to hate. (perhaps even Apple itself) Nature hates a vacuum
I am sorry, did you just have a mild stroke ? What does global warming have to do with microsoft buying apple ?
Just another example how MS is no longer innovative and the only way to improve something they have is to buy someone that has something better and incorporate it. Come on MS, back in the day you were ground breaking, innovative, and no one could touch you. Now you're being passed up on a daily basis and the only way you can compete now is to buy your competitors. Sad sad sad...
That may or may not happen. IBM is actually doing quite well for itself. Have they had to change for the times? Yes, but they've been able to adapt and do quite well for themselves (take a look a their stock). IBM is one of the few information technology companies with a continuos history dating back to the 19th Century. They are currently the largest technology employer in the world and the most profitable. Just because you don't see their name plastered everywhere, don't be fooled, they're there.
Let's take a quick look at the modern game consoles:
Xbox 360 contains IBM's Xenon tri-core processor
Sony's PlayStation 3 contains IBM's Cell BE microprocessor
Nintendo Wii contains IBM's chip called Broadway
Open up a computer made in the last 27 years and you will find a dozen or more IBM patterns. In fact for the last couple of years IBM has won awards for the most patterns which will be used in future technology.
SoI wouldn't call them a ghost.
The same is true with Microsoft. I'm no Microsoft fan boy (hey I'm reading a Mac forum), but they create stuff, which will be used for years to come.
Now a company like Google, who's stock took a huge hit today, dropped below $516 makes most of it's money from Advertising. A business which could move to another company very quickly. You have to remember that Google doesn't make a lot of money (if any) from Gmail, YouTube, beyond what it makes from Ads. And some companies, such as DIGG decided to go with Microsoft because they offered a better service at a better price than Google (at least that's what Kevin Rose said last year).
So I wouldn't be so quick to count Microsoft out.
As far as people saying that MS is not innovative, why should they reinvent the wheel, when they can just buy one?
Good idea, low offer
I think microsoft will benefit from buying yahoo and has the ability to bring it up to par. As a matter of fact, google's dominance is not healthy to the internet in general and it's getting harder to find real information on google. Their goal is to combat SEOs and spammers and as a result it's almost impossible to find any technical data easily searching google. Maybe this move will put google back on track and stop their evil that they don't do
I think microsoft will benefit from buying yahoo and has the ability to bring it up to par. As a matter of fact, google's dominance is not healthy to the internet in general and it's getting harder to find real information on google. Their goal is to combat SEOs and spammers and as a result it's almost impossible to find any technical data easily searching google. Maybe this move will put google back on track and stop their evil that they don't do
I think he's trying to say there are bigger things but I think he did have a mild stroke as evidenced by the links and different font sizes and colors. Or s/he's high or something. Read the original post in a Spicolli voice and it's just so funny.
You get the same with Yahoo! search as with Google, what is your point? The Yahoo! search engine is actually pretty good now, it just doesn't have the brand recognition (and momentum) that Google does.Some one tell me what 'Saccharomyces cerevisiae' means and tell me how you found the information. One word will do.
Microsoft has nothing but money. Tech world was supposed to be controlled by bright ideas and innovation... It'll be sad if they succeed in this bid. Hopefully more people will join anti-MS by this!
Not exactly. They use Google sitemaps technology for indexing but the rest is proprietary. At one point Yahoo! considered licensing Google's search engine but decided against it (having their own allows them to keep all the search ad revenue but you'd have to say that didn't work out too well so far...100% of 0 is still 0 and it's heading in that direction). The thing is, Yahoo! has tons of things that Google does not like a hugely popular Sports site that competes very well with ESPN and all kinds of original content. But, they have not been very good at leveraging that into ad dollars.