Comments on: Yahoo Refuses Microsoft’s $44.6 Bln Offer http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/yahoo-refuses-microsofts-446-bln-offer/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:17:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: RX8 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/yahoo-refuses-microsofts-446-bln-offer/#comment-55723 RX8 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:46:53 +0000 #comment-55723 Good for Yahoo!<br /> <br /> Microsoft would just ruin the company anyways. However, knowing how Ballmer acts, he will probably pay the premium price just to get them. Once he sets his mind on something, it's hard for him to turn around. Good for Yahoo!

Microsoft would just ruin the company anyways. However, knowing how Ballmer acts, he will probably pay the premium price just to get them. Once he sets his mind on something, it's hard for him to turn around.

]]> By: BILL http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/yahoo-refuses-microsofts-446-bln-offer/#comment-55722 BILL Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:06:51 +0000 #comment-55722 Google is the driving force behind the acquisition. But an index of joint Yahoo/Microsoft assets does not gurantee their ability to overtake the search giant. Both companies are trailing because of poor product portfolios, poor monetization, and a failure to innovate. The combined company may create a more assertive “also ran” player in the industry, but that player is not much more likely to beat Google.<br /> <br /> Read the analysis of what Yahoo’s new advertising platform would have to be at <a href="http://www.broodingsavage.com/journal/2008/2/11/what-can-save-yahoo-not-microsoft.html" title="http://www.broodingsavage.com/journal/2008/2/11/what-can-save-yahoo-not-microsoft.html" target="_blank" ref="nofollow">http://www.broodingsavage.com/journal/2008/2/11/wh...</a><br /> Google is the driving force behind the acquisition. But an index of joint Yahoo/Microsoft assets does not gurantee their ability to overtake the search giant. Both companies are trailing because of poor product portfolios, poor monetization, and a failure to innovate. The combined company may create a more assertive “also ran” player in the industry, but that player is not much more likely to beat Google.

Read the analysis of what Yahoo’s new advertising platform would have to be at http://www.broodingsavage.com/journal/2008/2/11/wh...

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