Comments on: Microsoft Yahoo: Is $32 now the magic number? http://joeduck.com/2008/07/13/microsoft-yahoo-is-32-now-the-magic-number/ Have Blog. Will Travel. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: glenn http://joeduck.com/2008/07/13/microsoft-yahoo-is-32-now-the-magic-number/#comment-99468 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:22:33 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-99468 Well Joe it is one year later and Microsoft has smacked Yahoo! into oblivion.

BING is now going to be Yahoo!’s search engine. Of course Google will try to make a mess of this in the courts but if the deal is successful this is a HUGE win for Microsoft.

The click thru rate is 55% higher on BING than it is for Google.

Yahoo’s stock is still under $16 a share and Microsoft now gets to siphon all that ad revenue, etc right from Yahoo for the next 10 years.

This ultimately will be the end for Yahoo.

The original deal Microsoft has proposed to purchase Yahoo was a great deal and it shows just how much arrogance (Yang) gets in the way of making good sound business decisions.

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Yahoo+Officially+Anounce+Partnership+Bing+to+Replace+Yahoo+Search/article15815.htm

]]> By: JoeDuck http://joeduck.com/2008/07/13/microsoft-yahoo-is-32-now-the-magic-number/#comment-77242 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:15:25 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-77242 Glenn you may be right, though if a new board sweeps in and takes an MS offer much lower than what was on the table they’d be up for the kind of scrutiny I think is not going to happen…ergo…an MS offer in line with a few months back.

]]> By: glenn http://joeduck.com/2008/07/13/microsoft-yahoo-is-32-now-the-magic-number/#comment-77241 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 23:55:24 +0000 http://joeduck.wordpress.com/?p=1795#comment-77241 MS gets Yahoo for less than $30 per. My guess it will end up $28-$30

Yang, et al, screwed the shareholders and hopefully they will all file a class action lawsuit against Yang personally to recoup their losses.

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