Microsoft to Yahoo: come back, this isn't over!
By Ryan Block 
posted February 11th 2008 5:59PM
posted February 11th 2008 5:59PM
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It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies. Based on conversations with stakeholders of both companies, we are confident that moving forward promptly to consummate a transaction is in the best interests of all parties.
We are offering shareholders superior value and the opportunity to participate in the upside of the combined company. The combination also offers an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.
A Microsoft-Yahoo! combination will create a more effective company that would provide greater value and service to our customers. Furthermore, the combination will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising.
The Yahoo! response does not change our belief in the strategic and financial merits of our proposal. As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!'s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal.
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I think this is the best thing that has happened to microsoft in a long time. Yahoo is a fast sinking ship that isn't really able to holds its own weight. It should focus more on what people want and less on trying to be google
...Incidentally, these two things seem to coincide.
Obviously photoshop... Ballmer's never been that thin.
Soooo true! And Ballmer sweats a whole lot more! He seems a bit too dry in that picture.
LOL. That picture goes in the Engadget Hall of Fame!
Back to the story: If I were a Yahoo shareholder, I would be furious that Yahoo wasn't tying the knot.
-Ding-
Microsoft don't need to buy Yahoo.
They need to buy more brain.
Just sit back and grab popcorn.
This is going to be a fun ride
Don't Yahoo! execs have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders? Granted, if MS aquired their company, they'd all be tossed out on their asses for gross mismanagement over the past 10 years, but still - there is simply no arguing that this deal is in the company's long term interests (in fact, it is its only hope). Yahoo is nothing but a big, fat takeover target. Google would be making its own offer if it had the capital.
Yahoo rejects offer and goes off looking to buy AOL - are they nuts? Today's headlines should have read "Yahoo looks gift horse in mouth and shoots self in foot". Seriously, someone at Yahoo has figured as way to game this situation to get even richer from Microsoft's offer which they will, ultimately, some day or another, accept.
That picture is freakin' awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Yahoo] noooo microsoft... I only like you as a friend, stoooop cut it.. cut it ooooooout!!! ;\
[Microsoft] mmmmm c'mon baby, you know I only wanna *censored* ;)
For the young kids on here, the backdrop is from Say Anything (1989) starring John Cusack.
80s flicks ftw! There were sooo many classics from the 80s. :)
That pic is hilarious! You guys know how to keep a brotha laughing while Im geekin'
OK, I read your website almost every day, and most of the time I'm impressed with your outlook, but desecrating a picture of Lloyd Dobler is OVER THE LINE!!! ;) That is heinous...(shaking head in disbelief)