If it weren’t for all the drama he stirred up, that sick and greedy corporate raider Carl Icahn would never have made the Yahoo board. The guy knows nothing of tech.
Nevertheless, it’s better than the proxy board Icahn was pushing for: a bunch of yes-men who would tear Yahoo apart and sell it to Microsoft.
You […]
I say Yahoo did the right thing by fighting off Microsoft. Dvorak says shareholders who disagree are sick and greedy. Carl Icahn, champion of the sick and greedy, proposes a board full of losers.
Good to see Yahoo’s biggest shareholders finally see the light.
Tags: Bill Miller, Carl Icahn, Investment, Jerry Yang, Legg Mason, Microsoft, YahooShare This
I think Yahoo did the right thing by fighting the Microsoft takeover, and any Yahoo shareholder who thinks otherwise is a whiner. I’ve read much of the tech blogosphere, especially Michael Arrington, side with the whiners. Good to finally see somebody take the long view of things.
John C. Dvorak chastises the whiners in a recent […]
Yahoo’s most recent strategic plan involved portals, ads and APIs. They just dropped the “ads” part. They have become a Google AdSense publisher, just like thousands of Web publishers around the world.
Two years ago, Yahoo ceded search to Google. Now they’ve ceded advertising as well. With Google’s help, Yahoo has finally fended off Microsoft. Shareholders […]
Sigh. I knew all that competitive coolness over the weekend couldn’t last. Now towards the end of the week, we’re stuck with people either buying, salvaging, or raiding stuff.
Comcast buys Plaxo. Pathetic. This is an ISP with a bad reputation buying a social network with a bad reputation in a lame attempt to look “cool”. […]
Mere days after the announcements of MySpace Data Availability and Facebook Connect, Google comes out with a lighter but wider social network data portability initiative. Last night at the Googleplex saw the announcement of Google Friend Connect, a set of widgets that lets any site plug itself into its readers’ social graphs on multiple social […]
One of the most annoying things about maintaining a social network profile is having to manually repost updates from that profile to other services you use. Most of these social networks just don’t want to share, doing everything they can to lock their users into their little information silos.
Just as I was tediously retyping a […]
Despite Ballmer’s bravado, Microsoft raised its bid for Yahoo but Jerry Yang didn’t bite. Michael Arrington suggests Yahoo has committed corporate suicide to preserve its honor from being raped by Microsoft.
I disagree. Yahoo is right to turn down Microsoft. This was an act of courage, not suicide.
Sure, when the Tokyo stock market opens in several […]
Yahoo selling out to Microsoft would be like a mammal chaining itself to a dinosaur — or in this case, the Ballmersaur. Now that the Wall Street Journal has revealed the proxy board it plans to put on top of Yahoo, I’m more convinced than ever that a Microsoft acquisition would kill Yahoo. Read through […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer must love the taste of crow. Right after dissing Facebook, he bought into it. Now he’s dissing Yahoo’s higher-than-expected Q1 earnings, saying he won’t raise his takeover bid.
Yeah, right. Steve-O’s bravado isn’t fooling anyone. Remember when Microsoft was trumpeting Vista as the next big thing? Now Ballmer admits Vista is an […]
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