http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2008/02/02/microsoft-offers-446-billion-for-yahoo/ si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://weblog.sinteur.com/index.php/2008/02/02/microsoft-offers-446-billion-for-yahoo/comment-page-1/#comment-23712 bill l. Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:54:43 +0000 http://weblog.sinteur.com/?p=21880#comment-23712 Why bid so high? Is the idea that this will force Yahoo to sell since it would offer such a tidy profit to shareholders Yahoo doesn't dare refuse? I would think the shareholders would be glad to jump at an offer half that big. Yahoo is a dying brand (and deservedly so, like Facebook, Digg, and even Google, too, the Internet is rife with grossly overpriced stocks), and that is what this is really about, brand and mindshare. Google has it, at least for now, and I don't see how jamming Microsoft's bitter peanut butter in Yahoo's stale chocolate is going to produce a winner. I can't wait for the Microsoft stockholder class action suit over this if it tanks. Why bid so high? Is the idea that this will force Yahoo to sell since it would offer such a tidy profit to shareholders Yahoo doesn’t dare refuse? I would think the shareholders would be glad to jump at an offer half that big. Yahoo is a dying brand (and deservedly so, like Facebook, Digg, and even Google, too, the Internet is rife with grossly overpriced stocks), and that is what this is really about, brand and mindshare. Google has it, at least for now, and I don’t see how jamming Microsoft’s bitter peanut butter in Yahoo’s stale chocolate is going to produce a winner. I can’t wait for the Microsoft stockholder class action suit over this if it tanks.

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