MICROSOFT BUYING YAHOO?

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Looks like it might be time to close my Yahoo account. :crash:

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger in 2001.

The surprise offer of $31 per share, made late Thursday and announced Friday, seizes on Yahoo’s weakness while Microsoft tries to muscle up in a high-stakes battle with Google likely to define the technology landscape for years to come.

(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

Yahoo repeatedly has rebuffed Microsoft's advances in the past but in a statement Friday the company said it will “carefully and promptly” study the bid. The Justice Department also said it would be interested in reviewing the antitrust implications of the offer, and analysts expect other enforcement agencies to follow suit.

With its profits steadily sliding, Yahoo’s stock slipped to a four-year low this week, and a new management team has been trying to steer a turnaround but sees more turbulence through 2008. Yahoo Chairman Terry Semel, who had rejected an earlier bid from Microsoft, resigned from the company's board Thursday.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, still one of the company's biggest shareholders, took over as chief executive last year after Semel was forced to step aside. Former advertising executive Roy Bostock, who has been on Yahoo's board since 2003, was named chairman Thursday.

The announcement of the Microsoft bid lifted Yahoo’s share price by almost 50 percent in Friday trading, while Google fell almost 8 percent, dragged down by a fourth-quarter earnings report that missed Wall Street expectations.​

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22947626/
 
When I think of Yahoo...well I just dont care for it.

Yahoo Is not the greatest by any means. As a matter of fact. When you download something, for example their messenger, they force you to install some yahoo bars and other stuff on your browser.
 
I use lycos and my domains for email, and google for search. IM is third party through trillian. So no yahoo products here.
 
I used to use Yahoo. I even belonged to some Groups. But, when they started being predatore in installing their toolbar I got no use for that tactic. IMO, they've only hurt themselves.
 
I use Yahoo only for an email account --- of course, I also use hotmail and lycos, also. :)

I refuse to put in their toolbar.

For searching --- AltaVista, Lycos, Ask, or About --- then Google
 
TexasRaceLady said:
I use Yahoo only for an email account --- of course, I also use hotmail and lycos, also. :)

I refuse to put in their toolbar.

For searching --- AltaVista, Lycos, Ask, or About --- then Google
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I use the toolbar and yahoo for mail, no problems , i usually go with google for search. I don't see what the big deal is with the toolbar, the ati-spy thing actually works pretty well, i also use yahoo as my home page , beats MSN and all the rest IMO.
 
Mopardh9 said:
I use the toolbar and yahoo for mail, no problems , i usually go with google for search. I don't see what the big deal is with the toolbar, the ati-spy thing actually works pretty well, i also use yahoo as my home page , beats MSN and all the rest IMO.
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I've had my hotmail account since the beginning, which I now use for my junk mail. I have another for work and 1 for my personal emails. I don't need a 4th. As to anti-spy, I use Firefox with Spybot and Search and Destroy running, along with AVG for viruses. As to the toolbar I don't see where it's any use to me. And my home page is google. But, to each his own...
 
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