Comments on: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang does 180, basically slaps Microsoft in the face

By: jovanie

jovanie — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:23:56 +0000

maybe it’s because of that:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/ending-our-agreement-with-yahoo.html

-_-

By: Arthur

Arthur — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:58:29 +0000

Jerry is the epitome of LOSER!! He is just another greedy CEO and deserves to go bankrupt.

By: Rudiger

Rudiger — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:29:23 +0000

Jerry Yang is such a loser. I don’t think anyone even enjoys being around him.

Just reading about him is a letdown.

By: gadgetchic

gadgetchic — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:01:06 +0000

what a friggin dumbass. dont blame microsoft for your terrible business decision.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:21:02 +0000

I’m thinking MSFT still sees value in yahoo to help fight google and now they can offer a 65% premium over the current price of $13 and save themselves 20 billion dollars on their original offer.

Yang is a genius!

By: bobbyafra

bobbyafra — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:31:54 +0000

John C Dvorak made a very interesting comment back when it was known that Microsoft was making a bid to buy Yahoo. He said that MS would not really buy the company, only make it known that they want to buy them, and not follow through. I don’t recall his reasoning behind it, but he went on to say that this has happened in the past with other companies and what resulted was the buyee going out of business. Maybe Yang is telling the truth. Maybe MS knew exactly what they were doing. Or maybe thier intention was to really buy Yahoo, but it still resulted into this outcome. Who knows, but all I do know is that every time I heard anything about Yahoo with MS or Yahoo with Google, I kept remembering what Dvorak said. Man, he’s like Nostradamus!

By: mangenius

mangenius — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:44:16 +0000

I cant help but come back to this one and LAUGH.. hahahahahahaha

By: timothyt

timothyt — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:58:47 +0000

@ Richard Ward no need for racism now.

By: Mike (Philly)

Mike (Philly) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:27:21 +0000

time is on Microsoft’s side…..they will wait for a bottom and buy it at a significant discount to the $44B i wouldn’t expect anything to happen before the new year

By: Richard Ward

Richard Ward — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:06:00 +0000

Jerry /Wang/… What a dick. You “blew” it. I heard Bill Gates needs some floors mopped at his new entity. Don’t pass on that one.

By: mangenius

mangenius — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:58:06 +0000

maybe hes just mildly retarded lol

By: likeabite

likeabite — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:38:27 +0000

@ Sauce you’re dumb…Google just said this morning that they’re not even doing the ad partnership with Yahoo anymore, let alone wanting to buy it. They faced an antitrust suit so they backed out. That’s the only reason why Yang is saying that now because he wanted that deal and it did not happen rather than listening to Icann and not making him go through with the proxy fight. Now they have no choice but to be at the mercy of Microsoft. I hope they just let them rot. Stupid idiots. Knowing microsoft though they’ll either partner with them or buy them. A little salt in Google’s face to say we could do what you couldn’t lol. It is beneficial both ways though if you really look at it.

By: Sauce

Sauce — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:17:35 +0000

Google needs to perform a display of power… Buy out Yahoo! and then just crush the company right in front of Microsoft’s face.

By: Zeek

Zeek — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:57:10 +0000

Thats what they get for putting the tech guy back in the CEO seat…. good for innovation, bad for deal making. Trobule is, Yahoo has no stratigic innovation path anymore either.

By: bluehorseshoe

bluehorseshoe — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:28:12 +0000

I’ve been a Yahoo fan, but man did he screw this one up. It’s one thing to try to get the most $$$ for your company/shareholders (and his own wallet), but don’t be an idiot. Now that things have become cloudy out there, Yahoo is hanging in the wind. Yang blew it.

By: Tone Bone

Tone Bone — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:22:18 +0000

oh well! Shoulda, coulda, woulda.

By: Tyrone D.

Tyrone D. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:13:16 +0000

Yang sounds like a douchebag AND an a-hole! Good luck dumbass. Yahoo! will crash and burn!

By: Orga

Orga — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:05:56 +0000

I know a lot of people hate it, but it’s really the only applicable thing to say here. On three:

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LOLWUT?!

By: Boogaloo

Boogaloo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:49:26 +0000

Agree with 1adonis1… Yahoo has no leverage now. They don’t necessarily have to go bankrupt, though. Just the knowledge that they can’t survive is going to get Microsoft to push a low bid. Or maybe they’ll just wait for the incompetent Yang to come crawling to Ballmer.

By: 1adonis1

1adonis1 — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:39:37 +0000

Microsoft is just going to let them go bankrupt, then swoop in and buy Yahoo for the cheap. They should have took the first offer and ran with it.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:30:28 +0000

Yahoo! blew it.

At this point, if I was Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter), I’d let them rot.