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Reports: Microsoft proposes to split Yahoo

Details are starting to leak out today about the alternative deal that Microsoft is proposing to Yahoo following its thwarted acquisition bid.

According to a Reuters report, confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo's search business and have Yahoo sell off its investments in Japan and China. Microsoft would then acquire a minority stake in what remained of Yahoo, presumably including its e-mail and instant-messaging services and other online properties.

But both reports, based on anonymous sources, suggest that the deal is a long way from getting done. The Journal quotes people close to Yahoo saying that the company's executives "reacted lukewarmly to the plan," which wasn't presented in writing. Reuters, citing its source, notes that the proposal "represents an outline of Microsoft's current thinking and it does not yet put a value on Yahoo's search business."

Posted by at May 20, 2008 3:56 a.m.
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#130412

Posted by Sabon at 5/20/08 8:03 a.m.

Microsoft will apparently do just about anything or use just about anything to keep this stupid deal with Yahoo in the press. Why? So the press doesn't talk about how bad Vista is or how badly it is doing.

"But it's sold 140 million copies."

Only because it comes pre-installed on computers. And even those people that are choosing to have XP installed on their computer instead of Vista, their computer is still being counter FOR Vista. Talk about pathetic. But then of course they are trying to hide that fact from the general public or there will be a bigger out cry from people who don't want Vista or additional headaches that Windows already causes them.

"What are you talking about?"

There is a reason why Apple is surging in sales and it isn't so much to do with Apple. People are running as much too Apple as away from Microsoft and Vista.

The other joke on the public in the press this week is how Microsoft has supposedly sold 10 million XBox360s. It's all a matter of what "sold" means. Sold to stores to people going into stores and actually "buying" XBox360s.

This last month they sold a total of 180,000 copies, just barely ahead of the PS3 which is catching up (monthly trends).

I go into stores and see pillars of unsold 360s.

Meanwhile I go into stores which have only a few Wiis in stock. Nintendo sold over 750,000 units this month.

It's time to push Ballmer out. Like Bush he has been very inadequate for the job.

While he got egg literally on his face for the first time this week, he's had egg figuratively on his face for years and he'll do whatever he can to keep Yahoo in the news as long as possible to keep Vista out of the news.

#130440

Posted by unregistered user at 5/20/08 9:18 a.m.

Hey "Sabon" whatever the heck you call yourself, why don't you get a life?

The XBOX 360 sold in the US "depends upon what one means by sld does it"?
Well for your information, those 10 milion XBOX 360 sold in the US are NPD numbers, and NPD numbers are ACTUAL retail sales of XBOX 360's in consumers hands. There is no confusion about that, expecpt in the warped minds of Microsoft hating vermin and Nintendo zombies.

#130459

Posted by unregistered user at 5/20/08 10:01 a.m.

Sabon : "This last month they sold a total of 180,000 copies, just barely ahead of the PS3 which is catching up (monthly trends).
I go into stores and see pillars of unsold 360s"

The PS3 has been out for over 18 months now, and has oustold the 360 in just TWO of those 18 months..and that is after the PS3 has had TWO price cuts of to the tune of $100 each, starting less than 7 months after the PS3 was introduced.
Meanwhile, the 360 firmly held on, and did not have a price cut for to the tune of 22 months, and then a had aprice cut of an average $33, and has still oustold the PS3 in every single month but 2.
As for the cheap Japanese trinket Wii, its being bought by retirement home geriatric old women and little kids who don't know any better. They will quickly outgrow the kiddie games of the Wii and graduate on to a real game console, the XBOX 360.
This might explain why the XBOX 360 games have continued to outsell Wii game by far in America, every single month.

You can see XBOX 360's in the shops so they are not seeling? You don't say!
Hey, I see plenty of Toyotas's, Ford's etc at the daelers's parking lots every day, yet over 16 million cars are sold in America every year, that is over 3 times as many Wii's that are sold in America per year, and cars cost over 40 times as much as a Wii.

#130463

Posted by unregistered user at 5/20/08 10:11 a.m.

Sabon : ""But it's sold 140 million copies."
Only because it comes pre-installed on computers"

And Apple's Mac OS is not pre-installed on computers?
Hey, you can walk into any shop and buy any computer you like, including plenty of Apple macs. No one has to buy a Windows computer if they don't want to.
Only thing is, consumers have chosen to buy Windows PC's over the overpriced, underpowered, skimpy featured, overrated Apple Macs, which can't even run most of the busines software that consumers need fr their daily usage.
That would exlain why Appl's market share in China is close to a big FAT ZERO, even as China's personal computer market continues on a fast track to overtake that of the US in very short order, after China has already overten the personal computer market of Japan, to become the second laregst personal computer market on the planet.
Luckily, the Chinese are too smart to fall for the Apple hype, and have shunned the Apple Macs by their hundreds of milions, even as the Apple Mac's share in China continues to be a pathetic joke

#130509

Posted by unregistered user at 5/20/08 12:59 p.m.

Why do you fight over the only couple of options u've ever seen, not understanding that the infant computers industry needs some time to evlove. Yes, true, that people want ease of use, iterface. But if you look at the only recent past of computer age, there hasnt neen much to get used to except microsoft softwares, largely. And, then there are some fanboys. Linux et al are still waiting for that one true distro to rule them all.

There will always be competition over occupying the maximum real estate over our computers, but will there always be favourite ones ? by a large margin ?? Not just speaking of OSes, also about applications, where too we have clear majorities (in terms of actual usage), be it Documents, Image, Video, and on the net too, Search Engines, Auction etc.

Wait and watch, till u die !!

#130512

Posted by unregistered user at 5/20/08 1:12 p.m.

If Yahoo and Microsoft merge, will they be able to compete with Google?

http://www.tradeingroups.com/microsoft-acquires-yahoo/

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