Comments on: Yahoo: Microsoft's price just wasn't right

Microsoft didn't value Yahoo highly enough, Yahoo said after Microsoft's withdrew its acquisition offer. Yang calls the episode a "distraction" that's "behind us now."

[J. Blow]

Jerry - You're an idiot

There's not much more to say. Totally stupid and moronic.

[Vegaman_Dan]

What will the stockholders say?

The CEO just cost them untold millions in profits. If the stock takes any sort of downturn, it could cost them even more after that.

I highly predict that the CEO has a short life expectency at Google.

[philtschidder]

Jerry - you're an idiot.

just wanted to second that motion.

[onlyauser]

Yang's three brain cells

One is lost and the other two are fighting.

Has this guy always been so clueless and unplugged. Yahoo is going to drop bigtime.

LOL

[onlyauser]

Yahoo train wreck coming.

Ever seen one? WOW!

[AppleSuxLeo]

How true !

Their stock will be in the toilet soon.

[mailbox001]

Yahoo is like AOL

Good for MS, it was a bad idea to buy Yahoo. Just like Time Warner and AOL and look what happened to that...MS didn't need the engineers, they need a better MARKETING Dept!

[The_Decider]

Better marketing?

That is all they do well.

Microsoft needs to actually produce something of reasonable quality that people will want.

[SpiritWater]

Time to buy Facebook

Microsoft would be better off buying Facebook and integrating MSN
Search into that site. MySpace's search is powered by none other
than Google.

Break the wedge!
www.breakthewedge.com

[The_Decider]

This is a good move for Yahoo

It will strengthen them. The major shareholders were smart enough to see long term, rather than cash out early at the cost of destroying a company.

If they had sold out, Yahoo would be no more, MS would have a few low level programmers(the talent would bolt on day one) and a bunch of software that would take years to understand and port to the archaic windows platform. Meanwhile, Google is still very agile and would have widened the distance while MS assimilates more bloat.

In short this was a lose/lose for both Yahoo and MS.

[MMC Racing]

More than likely...

The major shareholders were working off of greed and expected a much higher bid. Shareholders rarely care about long term, they only care about profits. Some funds, say some of the huge California retirement funds, do look long term, but most are going to hate the outcome here.

[Penguinisto]

ROTFL! MSFT Defenders Rush To Denounce!

Seriously guys... Yahoo did what they thought was right. Ballmer and Microsoft lost. Deal with it.

Your Iron Deity has clay feet - Yahoo just proved it. MSFT also proved that they have no cojones for a proxy fight.

Sucks that they'll never catch Google now, doesn't it?

/P

[The_happy_switcher]

I was really rooting for this train wreck

to happen. Damn.

[open-mind]

Microsoft is like a dog-sled team.

With each dog trying to run in a different direction lately, so they're not making much progress.

Google is like a 100MPH snowmobile.

And Yahoo is like a herd of big angry cheetahs.

The balding frustrated overbearing musher thinks it's a good idea to spend his life's savings on the herd of big angry cheetahs. He feels the result will be a much faster dogcat-sled team that can compete with the snowmobile.

Anyone else see a problem with that?

Alas the angry cheetahs would prefer otherwise, much to the chagrin of their owners who hoped to profit on the sale.

If it had happened, the imminent catastrophic self-destruction of the entire catdog-team and musher would have been amazing to watch.