Comments on: Yahoo shares jump on latest Microsoft report

The stock price is up in morning trading, following a Wall Street Journal report that Microsoft may be seeking partners to make another run at Yahoo's search operations.

[JCPayne]

So Microsoft's plan now is to hostile takeover Yahoo. And So-- people can't resist and search with them anymore.... Microsoft will then dumb down the Yahoo service and the Internet to Microsoft's level so that can actually compete against Google....

[open-mind]

OK, Yahoo is far from perfect. However, In the past few years, Microsoft has become such a completely ineffective and dysfunctional company, that I can't believe the threat of being purchased by them would make anybody's stock go up. Amazing.

[Penguinisto]

It makes sense (the stock jump): Day-traders are still among us, even the stupid ones. :)

[jamalystic]

Microsoft again!! I don't really seems to understand their obsession on this deal. Are they telling us now that their online future is solely dependent on this deal materializing? Well, as one expert rightly pointed out, itseems Microsoft have really lost all initiative to make their online presence counts: Microsoft's Online Future: Forecast Hazy ( http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=466&doc_id=152918&F_src=flftwo)

[jaspal.m]

It is not dependent on yahoo! but while they try to run live themself,it will take years to mark google level(if they really could).and so by then,,google would have gone far far away....you can see that now..google have already offre free version of words...
so..to stop google microsoft have to act now..and the best way is to buy yahoo..(Thats common sense..all of us know that)(the competition is not just for search anymore)
And so they know that they are not good in search no matter how hard they try,,they really cant compete with google...but still they got to compete for themself(not for anyone who is against them)so they got to buy something which could compete google ,,and then after that only they could go further and figure how to win.
And then now you ppl would say i am with microsoft,,so what,,if you ppl can stand on opposite side why cant i be with them...