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Night of the living Yahoo

sjvn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:44:14 +0000

“Brains! Must have Yahoo advertising brains!” That might have been Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s call as he finally made a deal for Yahoo. Sure, it looks like Yahoo still exists as an independent company, but in reality, Ballmer’s bite has turned it into a Microsoft zombie.

Yahoo has agreed to let is search engine brain, the [...]

Microsoft will end up buying Yahoo

sjvn — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:37:36 +0000

I predicted recently that with Jerry Yang on his way out as Yahoo’s CEO, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would end up buying Yahoo.

Since then, Ballmer has declared “Acquisition discussions are finished,” while leaving the door open to some kind of searching partnering deal. As you’d expect, Yahoo’s stock price dropped yet again. At around noon [...]

With Yang out, is Microsoft in at Yahoo?

sjvn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:19:44 +0000

How the mighty have fallen! In February, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for a cool $44.6 billion. Yahoo, under CEO Jerry Yang, turned them down.

That was then. This is now.

Then, Yahoo had an ad deal in the works with Google. Then, Yahoo had a stock north of $27 a share. Then, Yahoo thought it controlled [...]