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:~$ /etc/init.d/caring-about-yahoo-microsoft start
Starting caring-about-yahoo-microsoft.../etc/init.d/caring-about-yahoo-microsoft: line 78: start: (2507) - Operation not permitted
failed!

Guess I can't care anymore myself.
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Microsoft

Yahoo! nearly isn't important enough to consider a name change.]]>May 19th 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 19th 2008 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
Billionaires talk to one another, especially when one billionaire has gotten himself into a bad position and needs an external party to help him out of it.

And I'm not talking Yang.
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I didn't say they'll be successful. Maybe they are running out of things to try out.]]>May 18th 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
If you haven't seen WWT, Mediaroom, Surface, Photosynth, Silverlight, and some other upcoming technology, then I don't see how you can be saying they're not trying to out-innovate their competitors. I know for sure that Live Maps and Live Search (both from MS), are far better than the maps and search engine Yahoo! uses. Maybe Yahoo! users should be happy that they'll get the best out of both companies if the Yahoo! gets bought.]]>May 18th 2008 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
I want to buy you
I want to acquire you
I want to show you, Yahoo
that I own you

I want your offices
'till the very last door
I want you to drop of
when you want me to stop

And who can annoy you like me ~~ Nobody
Who can share you like me ~~ Nobody
Who can build you like me now, baby ~~ Nobody
Nobody, baby ~~ Nobody
And who can buy it like me ~~ Nobody
And who can develop what you need ~~ Nobody
Who can do you all year long ~~ Nobody
Nobody, baby ~~ Nobody

And the band keeps playing on.]]>May 18th 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 19th 2008 5:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/i see dead people...
stuttering stanley!
locked windows
system failure
blue screen of death
oh wait, let's restart.
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They wrote those poems

a. Because they love Yahoo!
b. To annoy you.
c. To help them have a poo.

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Yahoo and it's corporate culture is a TERRIBLE fit with Microsoft. THey have two completely different and clashing cultures. A buyout will result in Yahoo employees fleeing for the exits. The merger will be difficult and costly. All that will probably occur is what happened with Hotmail, running a once popular service into irrelevance. You'll just get an unsupported Yahoo with proprietary MSN crap grafted onto it.

Microsoft has proven time and time again that it does NOT know how to be either creative or innovative. Those qualities are simply nonexistent in its culture. Think of what would happen if Microsoft bought a company like Apple(not that it would ever happen). You'd get a little short term boost in products and creativity. But eventually all the best people from Apple would leave for other companies or startups.

The only people that want this are short term stock traders and Ballmer. And Ballmer wants this just because he is trying to do something to save his abysmal record as CEO. As usual, he's done the wrong thing in the wrong way.

Yes, Yahoo stockholders might make a quick buck. But in the long term it will be a money losing situation for Microsoft. ]]>May 18th 2008 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
The absorption of Yahoo! into MS may take a while, but here is their foot in the door... again.]]>May 18th 2008 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
Selling up at 60% above market value is a fairly sound decision short, medium & long term. Yahoo! have been bleeding market share for a long time, so unless you think that yahoo! is grossly undervalue, you sell. Are you seriously telling me that in the face of an offer 62% above market value, a good investor would hold?

Microsoft on the other hand... fair ranting.]]>May 18th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 19th 2008 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/
Not to pop your ballon, but a public company does not exist to:
a. To make it's employees happy.
b. Provide income for anybody, but the stock holder.
c. Make the consumer, user, or fan happy.

Also, so what if 50% or more of the current yahoo employees leave. Just like all employees the vast majority ARE replaceable. You are, I am, the idiot screaming at this post saying "he isn't" is. The US percieves itself going into a recession, so just like all the other sheep the Yahoo staff will say they are leaving, but only a few will. They have to make the mortgage payment too.

So simply, Ichan is right. Jerry Yang is a putz... I

stu]]>May 18th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 18th 2008 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/18/microsoft-and-yahoo-restart-talks/May 19th 2008 4:38AM