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ScreenCastsOnline Forum - Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for 44.6 Billion
Don't use yahoo much anyhow
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Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.
The market for online advertising is increasingly dominated by one player, Microsoft said, and merging with Yahoo will allow it to offer a competitive alternative.
Microsoft expects the market for online advertising to almost double in size over the next three years, from $40 billion in 2007 to $80 billion by 2010.
A merger will allow it to realize economies of scale and reduce capital costs as it addresses this market, it said.
"The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own," said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, in a statement.
Microsoft expects to cut costs by $1 billion a year by realizing synergies with Yahoo in four areas: obtaining economies of scale as its audience increases;
Combining its research and development efforts with Yahoo's to innovate faster;
Eliminating operational redundancy to cut costs, and pooling expertise to innovate in video and mobile.
The companies will work together to develop the merger plan, Microsoft said.
It intends to pay key Yahoo engineers and other staff to stay following the merger.
The offer represents a 62 percent premium over Yahoo's closing price on Thursday.
Microsoft expects to receive all necessary approvals in the second half of this year.
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Stupid MS! Why can't they just be happy with the business they're in - it's not as if it's failing!
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Pman wrote on Feb 1 st , 2008, 3:53pm:
Stupid MS!
Why can't they just be happy with the business they're in - it's not as if it's failing!
It's not about business as the common person would think about business, it's about control and power.
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Terry wrote on Feb 1 st , 2008, 5:49pm:
pman wrote on Feb 1 st , 2008, 3:53pm:
Stupid MS!
Why can't they just be happy with the business they're in - it's not as if it's failing!
It's not about business as the common person would think about business, it's about control and power.
Making Microslop stupid
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This news doesn't surprise me and seems a bit desperate.
What does interest me is Amazon buying Audible, as I really like both companies so hope it will only make both better.
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MS is scared of Google.
They see Yahoo as the only way to keep pace.
They have lost the battle on the web and they see Google inching there way into the desktop space.
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Google give us stuff for free and as everyone knows, they make their money from advertising.
Microsoft giving stuff away for free is the only way they can compete in my eye's...
NEVER going to happen
Google are know for the most part as THE GOOD GUYS.
Microsoft as THE BAD GUYS.
No amount of money invested can change that, Google have what money just cant buy
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Legion wrote on Feb 1 st , 2008, 8:48pm:
Google give us stuff for free and as everyone knows, they make their money from advertising.
Microsoft giving stuff away for free is the only way they can compete in my eye's...
NEVER going to happen
Google are know for the most part as THE GOOD GUYS.
Microsoft as THE BAD GUYS.
No amount of money invested can change that, Google have what money just cant buy
very true
Though I am worried about the future of Google.
Those who control the information control the world.
Google whole thing is that they want to control and index the worlds information.
I'm just worried they can't stay good forever.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If you'd ever played with data mining you'd know how much data they would extract from whats on their servers right now.
That information is probably worth more then you could imagine to advertisers.
Google is using some of it already, I don't think to its full potential, imagine if they started selling it on the open market
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Now what will happen to all of Yahoo!'s efforts in open source and it's backing of FreeBSD?
The FreeBSD guys in NYCBUG (which happens to have a bunch of its meetings in the SoHo Apple store ) only think this will turn Yahoo into the next Hotmail.
fyi, FreeBSD is the core of Mac OS X (just in case someone didn't know)
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Mackid805 wrote on Feb 3 rd , 2008, 5:25am:
Now what will happen to all of Yahoo!'s efforts in open source and it's backing of FreeBSD?
The FreeBSD guys in NYCBUG (which happens to have a bunch of its meetings in the SoHo Apple store ) only think this will turn Yahoo into the next Hotmail.
fyi, FreeBSD is the core of Mac OS X (just in case someone didn't know)
Apple iPhone and Yahoo Mail?
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Bunga wrote on Feb 3 rd , 2008, 6:23am:
Mackid805 wrote on Feb 3 rd , 2008, 5:25am:
Now what will happen to all of Yahoo!'s efforts in open source and it's backing of FreeBSD?
The FreeBSD guys in NYCBUG (which happens to have a bunch of its meetings in the SoHo Apple store ) only think this will turn Yahoo into the next Hotmail.
fyi, FreeBSD is the core of Mac OS X (just in case someone didn't know)
Apple iPhone and Yahoo Mail?
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and the option of for yahoo search, etc.
Apple was forging relationships with 2 companies and now one of them may completely dissappear
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Google troubled by Microsoft move
Google has criticised Microsoft's proposed bid for Yahoo
Google has said it finds Microsoft's $44.6bn ($22.65bn) bid to buy rival Yahoo "troubling" and wants regulators to scrutinise the proposed deal.
In a blog, Google said the tie-up could unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email and instant messaging services.
It said Microsoft had previously sought "to establish proprietary monopolies".
Microsoft made an unsolicited offer for Yahoo on Friday, and Yahoo has said it is considering the proposal.
Microsoft's Kevin Johnson said that the combination of the two companies would create an entity that could better compete with Google.
"Today the market [for online search and advertising] is increasingly dominated by one player," he said.
But that view is not held by the top executives at Google.
'Underlying principles'
"Microsoft's hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions," said David Drummond, Google's senior vice president for corporate development and chief legal officer.
"This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another.
It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation," he said in a company blog.
Mr Drummond claimed Microsoft may attempt to exert an "inappropriate...
Influence" over the internet.
"While the internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies - and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets," he said.
The EU competition regulator has launched a series of investigations into Microsoft.
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by Martyn Williams
Google has made its first official comments on Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo saying that the deal raises "troubling questions" and that the underlying principles of the Internet stand to be tested by the proposed deal.
The statement refers several times to Microsoft's past regulatory transgressions and indicates that Google could be preparing to fight the deal -- if it is accepted by Yahoo -- by pushing regulators to disallow it.
"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?," asked David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google in a statement posted on the corporate blog on Sunday.
Drummond also asks if an acquisition could allow Microsoft to "extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?" and to " take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services?"
A report late Sunday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal said Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Friday to offer help to the rival in thwarting the bid.
The newspaper, which Quote: d people familiar with the matter, didn't provide details of the telephone call.
Google has something to fear from a combined Microsoft and Yahoo.
The proposed deal, which was announced on Friday and has Microsoft offering US$44.6 billion for Yahoo, would combine the number two and three search engines.
The two companies are also leaders in the areas of Web mail and instant messaging so a merger would provide stronger competition for Google in those areas.
But Google has a massive lead in search and the deal wouldn't necessarily lead to an improvement in search results, so Microsoft and Yahoo would still face a challenge to surpass Google's current dominance in this part of the market.
The Google statement got a quick response from Microsoft, which said a combination of the two companies would benefit Internet users by establishing a stronger number two competitor to Google.
"The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet," said Microsoft's top-lawyer, General Counsel Brad Smith, in a statement.
"Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet.
We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!
Will advance these goals," Smith said.
A merged company would still only account for about 30 percent of the search queries run in the U.S.
And about 10 percent in Europe, he said.
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