Comments on: Yahoo to Microsoft: Price must be right

Responding to Microsoft's Saturday ultimatum, Yahoo says it won't be bought "for anything less than (our) full value."

[wotsinaname]

Ballmer is no Ellison

YHOO @ 51

[RainCaster]

That bodes well for the world

We don't need another overblown egomaniac, although Ballmer comes close.
Yahoo board- take the deal- your stock just isn't worth anywhere near what Microsoft is willing to pay. The tech boom went bust years ago, and if your heads weren't buried in the sand you would know that. Just take da money and run.

[Woofx3]

I applaud Yahoo for standing up to Microsoft

Im so happy to see a response from Yahoo on this issue. I was shopping around for another provider all together because of the thought of this merger going on. Bill Gates, you are not God, You Never Will be (Get Used to it)!!! Yahoo is fine as it is. Stick to yall's lousy service and products, and leave a company that has their stuff together alone. This Merger is not wanted by many people. You cant make it better! Heck you cant even fix all the problems you have with your own products. So why concentrate on someone elses product just so you can screw it up. Fix yours, earn the respect of the people, and just maybe things will improve all the way around.

Jerry and Roy of Yahoo, Hold steady! Yahoo is great the way it is. Launch that poison pill. Im buying your stock, just so Microsoft cant get mine. Your Rock Microsoft Sucks. Dont bow to these fools.

Ric Roberts, Cedar Park, Tx

[popereel]

You're absolutely right

Bill Gates isn't God...Steve Jobs is - just ask him, he'll tell ya.

[YankeePoodle]

Yahoo standing up or not just letting it go

Yahoo was a company with great potential and probably still is. By hiring Terry Semel and not having a proper vision, Yahoo swinged like pendulum trying to decide if it is tech company or content company, at the end of the day, the Yahoo stock holders lost considerable amount of money for lack of leadership and vision, by the same people who are incharge (yes, that includes Jerry Yang).

Jerry, let go Yahoo, it is too big for you and you cannot guide it any better than the one you hired. Microsoft and Yahoo is not a marriage made in heaven, the for the people who have put the money and faith in Yahoo, this is their last chance of redemption. With an on-slaught of Social Networking where Yahoo is lagging, and its daily reducing numbers in seach share, and tons of competition from the content angle from studios and likes of You-tube, Yahoo is not the hot-spot on the net, it used to be.

Yahoo had a lot of time to prove itself, and perform to its potential, but they simply did not. Microsoft and Yahoo will complement and would give the much needed competition to Google and in long run choice and better solutions to users.

[The Harper]

"Yahoo is fine as it is"

You got that right! With their declining market share in Search, declining stock price, declining ad rev share across the board, declining eyeballs (#visitors and uniques!), and increasing number of incongruent web services offerings and Panama glitches... They are perfectly fine!

MS may not be the answer to Yahoo's ills, but I don't think Yahoo's current management is the answer, either. They've had their chance, how long would you like to give 'em?

[Compumind]

Microsoft will win anyway...

Yahoo! for Yahoo!

However, MicroLAW has much larger legal department and will get what they want.

Sorry .... :0)

[dheurt1]

moicrosoft bid for yahoo

microsoft will win with a hostile takeover. it does not serve yahoo well to fight the bid

[BrianJStewart]

Knee Jerk Response

Is it just me or does appear to be a knee jerk response. Could they think about the matter and a response for more than 24-hours? Doesn?t a few days to reflect and assess the recent Microsoft letter seem more appropriate?

It is clear, at least in my opinion, that Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang are now being ruled by their emotions (and tempers) rather than intellect and reason. I am not saying that Yahoo doesn't have a right to try to maximize the offer or even go it alone (though I think that would be a mistake at this point), but Yahoo needs to start thinking rationally, stop whining and complaining, take their head out of the clouds and learn to compete in the market place because Google is having Yahoo's lunch (not just Microsoft's) in the online and advertising industry.

Despite nearly a decade of watching their market share, relevance, and market capitalization erode and disintegrate, Yahoo continues to paint a positive picture with optimistic valuations and forecast for the next three years. Regardless of the proxy fight or potential Microsoft acquisition, it's time that the Yahoo board is replaced.

For justification, just look at:
1. Their "revolutionary new ad platform? and how it failed to translate into profits
2. Botched acquisition of FaceBook
3. Yahoo 360, which was a complete failure
4. Loss of search market share
5. Continual demonstrations of "products coming soon". For example, I remember seeing a demonstration of the revolution IM client for Vista about a year ago. It's still in beta.
6. Lack of innovation in core products
7. Lateness to the mobile computing sector
8. A cluttered mess of disconnect services and sites that aren?t integrated well
9. Loss of talent over the years (the jumping ship by employees can?t reasonably or logically be blamed on Microsoft, as the departure of talent has been ongoing)

The list goes on of Yahoo?s missteps, loss opportunities, and blunders and they can?t blame Microsoft for their situation. Its clear Yahoo has lost focus and control of the company and that it time for their board to go regardless of what happens with Microsoft. Yahoo?s institutional investor?s should be making more noise than they are. If not, Yahoo?s fate is deserved.

[BALTHOR1]

My ISP is AT&T Yahoo

Does AT&T own Yahoo?Does AT&T even know about this?