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MrBubbles on 24 June 2008

Microsoft, Yahoo buyout talks back on: report

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is back in talks to buy out Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O), technology blog http://www.techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch reported on Tuesday, citing multiple unnamed sources at both companies.

Both Microsoft and http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo declined comment.

"The information we have is thin, but what one source is saying that Microsoft is talking a price lower than the $33 they were offering when the talks disintegrated in May," the report said.

Yahoo shares rose 5.73 percent to $22.68 on the Nasdaq in afternoon trading.

 

 



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eliasg on 24 June 2008

they didnt get bored trying to buy yahoo???



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*bleu-ocelot* on 24 June 2008

How sad.This situation I mean.



TheBigFatJ on 24 June 2008
eliasg said:
they didnt get bored trying to buy yahoo???

Yahoo has something Microsoft is unable to do: success in the online ad arena.  Microsoft was hoping that buying Yahoo would help them compete against Google, a competitor that's simply smarter than Microsoft (despite Microsoft continually insulting Google openly).

The problem is that MS can't innovate on their own.



disolitude on 24 June 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
eliasg said:
they didnt get bored trying to buy yahoo???

Yahoo has something Microsoft is unable to do: success in the online ad arena.  Microsoft was hoping that buying Yahoo would help them compete against Google, a competitor that's simply smarter than Microsoft (despite Microsoft continually insulting Google openly).

The problem is that MS can't innovate on their own.

I get a feeling by reading this post that you dont like the 360 much...

 



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TheBigFatJ on 24 June 2008
disolitude said:
TheBigFatJ said:
eliasg said:
they didnt get bored trying to buy yahoo???

Yahoo has something Microsoft is unable to do: success in the online ad arena. Microsoft was hoping that buying Yahoo would help them compete against Google, a competitor that's simply smarter than Microsoft (despite Microsoft continually insulting Google openly).

The problem is that MS can't innovate on their own.

I get a feeling by reading this post that you dont like the 360 much...

 

I have a 360. What's innovative about it? Xbox Live sure as hell isn't -- they've taken the concept from PC gaming and dumbed it down, then made it hosted by home consoles rather than dedicated servers to save money (and lower the quality).

I'm looking at Microsoft's history, not a console in particular. Everything they've done has been taken from somewhere. Windows was copied from Xerox. MS wasn't even the first to steal that idea: Apple was. Everything MS adds to its operating systems, and almost everything they do are unoriginal ideas they've taken from other areas. And like Windows, they're generally second-rate copies.

Microsoft top management has made a point of saying that Google is not a legitimate company.  I believe they used the phrase "house of cards".  In a huge fit of irony, they call Google a one-trick pony.  MS always underestimates their competition -- in the past, this worked due to competitor incompetence.



JaggedSac on 24 June 2008

^^LOL, everything any large company has ever done is not innovative. They buy start up companies and claim the innovation. Look at Google. And I love the whole dedicated servers argument. Read Bungie's thoughts on that, they said they could have done it but decided not to.



darthdevidem01 on 24 June 2008

can they not just give up



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niksta2 on 24 June 2008
JaggedSac said:
^^LOL, everything any large company has ever done is not innovative. They buy start up companies and claim the innovation. Look at Google. And I love the whole dedicated servers argument. Read Bungie's thoughts on that, they said they could have done it but decided not to.

 

who cares about bungie? they're a one-trick pony as far as I'm concerned...



JaggedSac on 24 June 2008

^^Really...Marathon, Oni, Myth? Marathon was the Mac's Doom. Myth was friggen bad ass(and bloody) and Oni was a pretty good third person mix of shooting and hand to hand. Then they made Halo.