Comments on: The battle for Yahoo's soul

Yahoo CEO and founder Jerry Yang bleeds purple. Carl Icahn and some Yahoo shareholders want his purple blood. Dan Farber chronicles the battle for Yahoo's soul.

[someguy999]

sorry, but when you had Overture in your hands and it was the greatest ad platform out there (financially speaking) and you've screwed it to the point where now you're using google's.

common sense tells me you did something wrong.

[fazalmajid]

Whoever thinks display ads are 10-100x more valuable than search ads is clearly delusional. Search ads reach people who are researching or about to make a purchase, what's more, for the specific product you are advertising. Display ads mostly reach a public that is not interested in purchasing, and in any case ad-blockers and banner blindness have long ago eroded whatever effectiveness they may once have had. The people who buy display ads are the same kind who buy TV advertising, i.e. clueless.

[aintnorainbowdorothy]

I'm not a user nor shareholder in Yahoo, but I do have an observation. Yahoo isn't worth $35 a share, much less the original bid nor the sweetened bid by Microsoft. Ballmer (possibly at Gate's insistence) was right to walk away. Wang is a Microsoft hater with ABM (anyone but Microsoft) softness of his head. He needs to be gotten rid of, Yahoo needs to go hat in hand to Microsoft and forget the Google deal, which won't get past regulators anyway. And then there is Icahn, well, let us just say it isn't looking pretty. Loss of value due to idiocy is loss of value. Yang Decker and the Microsoft haters need to go and the company needs to get an adult to run it, instead of a little kid who wants to be the quarterback or take his/her football and go home. Don't cry for Yahoo. Instead, cry for those employees who have worked long an hard for the company. Thewy're seeing it destroyed by a total fool. Seems their company name, Yahoo, is pretty apt. They're Yahoo's at the top.

[fdunn3]

It is just funny (not being a shareholder in Yahoo) watch as the announcents are being made and what it is simultaeusly to the value of Yahoo, MS, and Google's stock values.
When Yahoo finally disapproved the sale of it's search business in favor of outsourcing it to Google it is apparent that Yahoo's stock value is going down on heavy trading. At the same time Microsoft and Google's stock values rose.
That was of Friday afternoon's stock exchange close. This morning I anticipate seeing the volume of Yahoo stock being traded peaking while shareholders try to squeeze what little value is left out of Yahoo. That being said, a heavily sold/traded stock value decreases as the panic stricken holders try to get what they can over the price of Yahoo's stock before the original Microsoft offer (`$19/share). With Friday's closing offering prices for Yahoo were at $22.75 and with the high volume today after Yahoo's announcements I anticipate that the volume will peak again this morning and close at less than when MS first made it's offer. Yahoo has very little leverage in the search business anymore and It's shareholder know they are going to take a loss if they don't get rid of the stock quickly.
Foreshadowing any miracles I see Yahoo losing even more ground and stock prices tanking at about $10/share before the year is out.