Steve Ballmer and his troop of strategists, lawyers, accountants and bankers are done seeking a peaceful resolution with Yahoo's board of directors. It's been over two months since Microsoft made what Ballmer calls a "generous" offer of $31 per share.
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oligopsony: number of buyers is small while the number of sellers in theory could be large.
Microsoft is competing against too many more innovative firms, all fronts.
Google, Apple, Open Office.
Microsoft was built to satisfy a Bilateral Monopoly market, and that changed, and it was the silver bullet. I cant wait until MS, and Dell join Gateway in the "slow to react club"
- by tigerkitty2 April 6, 2008 9:01 AM PDT
- Jerry, Microsoft is going to own Yahoo!.
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- by Sumatra-Bosch April 7, 2008 7:29 AM PDT
- Exactly. Take the money. Walk. Meet your people in the parking lot. Build the next big thing. Read about the Boy Fuhrer from Duncan Hines mismanaging Yahoo! to its destruction in the newspapers from the comfort of your back porch and laugh yourself sick.
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(9 Comments)Sell it to them, and then off your stock for whatever premium you can, because Yahoo will start to sucka$$ very quickly.
The value of Yahoo! will decline just because Microsoft owns it and we the people hate Microsoft.
Start over with a new portal page without the baggage that Yahoo! is carrying along with it, and kick Microsoft/Yahoo!'s collective a$$.
I know it feels like the end of the world, but it's really a new beginning. Embrace it and free yourself.