Lawyers and short term money-driven stakeholders killed the innovation at Yahoo! This proxy fight, and the rigged board will likely do Yahoo, and possibly Microsoft, under, due to lack of vision and repeating old stuff. We saw it before at Yahoo, but the return of Yang gave hope that the downward spiral would be reversed. He didn't even get enough time to recover from the previous time the non-inventive people took over.
Icahn specializes in what's best for him. Is he in this for the long haul? Or just the short term profit? If the former, Yahoo will do fine. If the latter, Yahoo will dissapear as a brand and MS may do well in the long run, or may not. However someone will make money. i wonder who?
Microsoft is so Web 1.0. Google is the future. And Yahoo is somewhere in-between. If Yahoo is forced to assume the Microsoft corporate culture, it will mark the beginning of the end for Yahoo.
Mark my words.....<br /><br />Yahoo-Microsoft will go the way of:<br />*Sprint-Nextel,<br />*AOL-Time Warner,<br />*Excite-@Home Network,<br />*AT&T Broadband,<br />*MCI-WorldCom,<br />*Enron,<br />*Bear Stearns,<br />*Qwest-US West,<br />and all the rest of the companies ruined by too much Shareholder greed...
Yahoo Founder Jerry Yang is an orphan.<br /><br />He lost his father at 2 years old age and His mother raised him all by herself.<br /><br />Mr. Carl Icahn should know better not oppress an orphan and alien.
Unseat google? hahahahahaha This clueless idiot doesn't know anything about technology, and the way people use it. Google got that from the beginning, that's why they are on top.
Unseat google? hahahahahaha This clueless idiot doesn't know anything about technology, and the way people use it. Google got that from the beginning, that's why they are on top.
Icahn's interference with internet companies is wreaking havoc on the technology landscape, with most of his deals delivering a short-term value to shareholders and long-term strategic problems.<br /><br />BEA's sale to Oracle was mind-boggling because Oracle already has a competitive offering. Oracle will either have to spend time and resources maintaining two app server products, or it will have to integrate the two products and migrate customers to the result. In either case, the customer loses.<br /><br />A Yahoo sale to Microsoft would be fundamentally damaging to the internet ecosystem. A "Microhoo" would either have to maintain two internet portal sites, or it would have to integrate the two. In the first case, the customer loses because a company splitting its focus is less nimble. In the second case, the customer loses because of a reduction in choice. Furthermore, the value of the deal is predicated on the idea that they can move forward together better than apart. This will be difficult to accomplish if the combined company faces a talent exodus. Each company is better off focusing on their own -- separate -- strategies.
To JCPayne: I think you'll find that the companies you cite were done in by deception of the shareholders and executives who thought they weren't beholden to their shareholders. I believe that's a description that would better fit Yahoo on its own.
This is not about competing with Google...not about offering a more complete online experience for "the customer"....As "JC Payne" wrote, this is about GREED...<br />Keep in mind, as Mr. Gordon Gecko explained to us all, Greed is good....<br />When Mr. Icahn turns a profit, his hedge fund investors turn a profit. His justifications for his actions are for the betterment of those who invest in him. He does not have personal sentiments for Mr. Yang, or other entreprenuers...<br />Agree, or disagree, these are the actions that build Billionaires.<br /><br />This is the same investor who drove TWA into bankruptcy while kicking off his website lowestfare.com in the mid 90's. <br /><br />Will Circuit City be his next "investment"???
- by huddy2323 June 30, 2008 1:28 PM PDT
- This is not about competing with Google...not about offering a more complete online experience for "the customer"....As "JC Payne" wrote, this is about GREED...<br />Keep in mind, as Mr. Gordon Gecko explained to us all, Greed is good....<br />When Mr. Icahn turns a profit, his hedge fund investors turn a profit. His justifications for his actions are for the betterment of those who invest in him. He does not have personal sentiments for Mr. Yang, or other entreprenuers...<br />Agree, or disagree, these are the actions that build Billionaires.<br /><br />This is the same investor who drove TWA into bankruptcy while kicking off his website lowestfare.com in the mid 90's. <br /><br />Will Circuit City be his next "investment"???
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