FRIHOST • FORUMS • FAQ • TOS • BLOGS • DIRECTORY
You are invited to Log in or Register a Frihost Account!

Will Microsoft succeed in acquiring Yahoo?

   Frihost Forum Index -> Webmaster and Internet -> SEO and Search Engines
 


justinrocks
By now every internet user might be aware that Microsoft is trying to takeover Yahoo for $44.6 Billion and recently Microsoft threatened yahoo that they will go directly to the shareholders if the board of Yahoo did not act on the offer.

Here is the offer letter Microsoft sent to Yahoo http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/05/microsoft-pretends-to-force-yahoos-hand/

And there are reports that Google playing big role in denying the deal to go through.

What you think? Will microsoft succed in acquiring Yahoo?

Last edited by justinrocks on Sun Apr 20, 2008 6:26 am; edited 1 time in total
imagefree
Quote:
And there are reports that Google playing big role in denying the deal to go through


Do you have (or can you reffer to ) any article about this?


Yes Microsoft has given a deadline of 3 weeks to yahoo Top management.

I think Microsoft will not succeed (But MONEY IS POWER, anything may happen).
ddoonie
I hope not, i dont like the idea of the internet being controlled, even partially, by corporations....
k_s_baskar
Quote:
Will microsoft succed in acquiring Yahoo?


I think microsoft can't acquire yahoo.
Peterssidan
I want to think microsoft can't acquiring Yahoo.
FunDa
Peterssidan wrote:
I want to think microsoft can't acquiring Yahoo.


I want to think that too . But I want to think that Microsoft will stop bundling Internet explorer and add Firefox to default Windows installation. And also that Microsoft will stop bundling Windows Media Player and use Mplayer or VLC or atleast install the latest codecs by default.

But all those are just unattainable dreams. This is the real world, and in the real world, Microsoft can make proxy companies and replace the entire board of directors of Yahoo and by brute force take over Yahoo for even lesser a price than they quoted initially.

Then Microsoft is going to make sbsolutely unwanted changes to Yahoo amke destroy everything tht Yahoo has made up till now, leaving Google to be the only real good company left in the whole wide world (WWW - I mean, world wide web Wink )
justinrocks
imagefree wrote:
Quote:
And there are reports that Google playing big role in denying the deal to go through


Do you have (or can you reffer to ) any article about this?


Yes Microsoft has given a deadline of 3 weeks to yahoo Top management.

I think Microsoft will not succeed (But MONEY IS POWER, anything may happen).


@imagefree

Here it goes:

Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google.

In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo, Google emerged over the weekend with plans to play the role of spoiler.

Read the full story here : http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/04/business/04google.php
justinrocks
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft’s MSN and News Corporation’s MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.
...
The talks between Microsoft and News Corporation are at a sensitive stage, people involved in the discussions said. “There’s a long way to go before anything is definite,” one person involved in the talks said.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/technology/10google.html
nivinjoy
So it gonna pose a real threat to Google.... So what are Google's plan of acquisition...???
justinrocks
Quote:
A Microsoft executive on Friday sent workers an upbeat email outlining a vision of how the software giant expects to take over Yahoo and merge the companies’ cultures and resources.


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Internet_/Microsoft_sends_email_to_employees_for_Yahoo_takeover/rssarticleshow/2810825.cms

I think Microsoft will not keep quiet until they takeover Yahoo. The way they are surgin ahead with all sort of tactics I can certainly see the end of Yahoo.
georgekalathil
LEts wait an see. I hope that MS will surely achieve their goals.
manumiglani
Yes, The deal will eventually go through.

Yahoo can't survive alone.
Reply to topic    Frihost Forum Index -> Webmaster and Internet -> SEO and Search Engines

FRIHOST HOME | FAQ | TOS | ABOUT US | CONTACT US | SITE MAP
© 2005-2007 Frihost, forums powered by phpBB.