Why are people so uncreatively stupid?

What M$ should have done was imbed search engine hooks into all it’s various OSes, signed an agreement with Yahoo! to direct these hooks to Yahoo!, made these hooks hell to change, and then finally bought a 49% stake in Yahoo.

Advertisers don’t have respect for you, they just want your eyes by any means possible so they can work their voodoo on you. e.g. Apple Computers are radically young and hip.

This proves to me M$ never had a monopoly by design but rather one handed to them on a silver platter by the sheer ineptness of their competition.

can Yang be this stupid. You should know something is up when your biggest rival offers you an olive branch. As I posted earlier Ballmer should come back later with an offer of $20 a share

“You assholes pushing for companies to make your stocks go up, is what makes companies not give a shit about its employees, and push them to work incomprehensible hours forcing them into depresion and creating the cycle of insanity in our society. So keep whing about your stock prices you jackasses. I will continue to only invest for the long haul in a company I like.”

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What’s the problem here?

Stocks are supposed to go up. Why should I care about what happens to every employee? I am not investing in companies for the people. I am investing in companies to generate a large profit.

Shareholders are not there to run the business and take care of the details. They invest because they believe that the company can grow and that growth will help shareholders to get more cash. Any reason for investing other than making as much money as possible is lunacy.

Stop pretending as if you care about the people. They certainly do not care about you. If you are not out here for self, you are not living a very good life.

Thank the lords this merger didn’t happen. Just what we needed would be one more giant piece of crap corporation. I happen to be a shareholder, but I am not one of those greedy idiots that trade stocks to make money. Those people should be ashamed of themselves as promoting mergers only makes this country more of a pile of shit, giving control of everything to a handful of giant corporations. Corps are why this country’s populace need to take drugs to live day to day. You assholes pushing for companies to make your stocks go up, is what makes companies not give a shit about its employees, and push them to work incomprehensible hours forcing them into depresion and creating the cycle of insanity in our society. So keep whing about your stock prices you jackasses. I will continue to only invest for the long haul in a company I like.

Good for Yahoo. I know everybody reading here are die hard M$ fans, but as a consumer, I applaud Yahoo. If M$ would have bought Yahoo!, you can be sure I would be a Google only man even if I don’t agree with them. M$ doesn’t offer good service like Yahoo! and Google do. I agree with your statement, Bing. I am in the the Airline biz and takeovers are bad news to anyone making less than $1 million at the company.

F — Microsoft! I am with Yang all the way!

Jerry Yang has a plan and it had better work after he turned down a “better than what it was actually worth” offer from Microsoft. Only time will tell if Jerry made a blunder from his ego or he has guts of steel.

All this whining from Jerry about how Microsoft walking away is just drama on his part to lessen the blow.

Yahoo share holders, you can run now and get some returns or wait for the pot of gold. Only time will tell.

Huns (YHOO) retreated to the highlands where resources can be very limited and embedded in non fertile territory.

Toying with antitrust regulations and flirting with problematic alternatives may have burned YHOO’S bridges.

The bridges leading back to the fertile fields of opportunity, which YHOO abandoned, may have suffered irreparable damage.

MSFT retains its position as a leader and innovator in the “RAINFOREST” of technology.

I hope the little people at Yahoo aren’t cheering. The stock dropped. That means some of the little people are going to be catching pink slips soon. What’s good for the company isn’t necessarily good for the workers.

MS only shut off negotiations over the weekend. The board and shareholders may still be trying to figure out their next move. Also, they may not want to frighten the markets more by removing their senior management (team) while the stock price is still reeling from a declined premium take-over offer.

The circumstances that you are describing, Bing, sound like the kind of folly that’s rife in the airline industry. This could even be the dealings of a Pickens or an Icahn.

Let’s face it Bing, Yahoo out smarted it self, that is usually the case when people start to believe their own B.S.
Microsoft people should find a bar have a beer and thank the gods of finance that they just avoided a landmine.
Yahoo people should dump their stock and invest in Google or rice futures anything except AOL, which is another turkey that hasn’t been cooked yet.
Hats off to the dummies at Yahoo

Actually, I did say what I meant. I know a company. It got “saved” by a white knight who turned out to be far more destructive than the original acquisitor ever would have been. Is that complicated? I wasn’t rooting for anybody, but I’m not sure Yahoo served its investors as well as it might have by taking the money. Its management is still in power, though, and that says something for their determination, huh?

Wow, Jim. That’s a very enlightening argument. I couldn’t have put it better myself. You should come here more often and share your minimalist ideas with us.

I’m no expert on these matters, but I was rooting for Microsoft on this one. I can understand the fear and frustration associated with an unwelcome advance by such a powerful suitor. In the the end, though, I think taken the money and taken a nice long vacation.

Okay, now come the easy bets. Yahoo’s price falls. We already know that. In a few weeks or months, MS bids again, but at a lower price. This time, Yahoo accepts because next time the shareholders won’t be silly enough to turn down such a huge premium.

Could Google make a run at the company? Maybe. I doubt that would pass regulatory muster, though. Even if it does, it won’t in Europe.

Or perhaps China, with its trillions of dollars in reserves, makes a pass. But that would be unprecedented and, quite frankly, I don’t see Yahoo becoming a big enough bargain for their brand of low-ball.

MSFT blew it, and so did YHOO…watch the vultures come in and swoop, quicker than anyone can say “google”…

Lame column. If you have something to say, say it.

SHUT UP

Thank God that Microsoft backed off buying that turkey.
I would like to see the faces on some shareholders when they realize they just blew 16% and that the future is going to be worse for Yahoo.

Mt advice: dump yahoo while you still can, it’s long term is nowwhere, cause now it’s a 3 horse race.

Bull’s eye. Great metaphor.