Comments on: Is Yahoo! Manipulating Bloggers?

By: "I didn't open my browser all weekend" Monday | Michael Gracie

"I didn't open my browser all weekend" Monday | Michael Gracie — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:26:39 +0000

[...] Is Yahoo! manipulating bloggers? Doubtful – such action would create even more of a black purple eye. If anything, it’s more likely a renegade faction within. Then again, blog manipulation (i.e. shutting them down) seems to have found its way into the political process. Quelling discontent, or just one more way of saying blogs are really starting to matter? [...]

By: Three Piece Suit

Three Piece Suit — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:52:09 +0000

As a long-time corporate lawyer, I can assure you that an MBA, $5000 custom-made suit, and executive job at an established company is often the disguise of a consummate criminal. Not always, of course, but often enough.

By: The Webloglearner

The Webloglearner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:58:05 +0000

What a bad speculation they have had. To dream of higher stock price and to pretend a higher demand, Yahoo! have suffered the consequences of its actions. Anyway, too bad for yahoo. Before google, this search engine really reigned, I remember the old times when it was all yahoo and yahoo only! But google broke all those stuffs and dethroned Yahoo!

On the other hand, if Yahoo stay and continue to strive for the better, it would encourage healthy competition and google is right, it might endanger the internet if Yahoo was successfully acquired by Microsoft.

Meanwhile, I guess it was only a move to put more power to Microsoft before Bill Gates finally retires.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:30:58 +0000

I’d be happy to see Yahoo! go away. I work at Lockheed Martin, which is right next to Yahoo, and if Y! fell over and went FFFWWT it would greatly improve traffic. And considering that we actually build things, space rockets and satellites and nuclear bombs and stuff, Lockheed isn’t going to be going anywhere for a LONG time.

By: AndyJ

AndyJ — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:13:36 +0000

Only pople without a mortgage or kids can afford to do the right thing. For a journalist to toss out a source who used him would be the kind of Right Thing that we only see in film noir movies from the early ’50s.

Expecting teh SEC to investigate anything is also an unlikely process. The ssytem is wired and only the True Believer still holds to the concepts of Truth, Justice, Right, Honor, Sacrifice, Honesty…

It gets lonely out here some days… Only when the bad guys get theirs does the wee bit of Schaddenfeude provide compensation… It’s enough. Just wish there was more of it.

By: The Snob

The Snob — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Even at $25/share it would ~$30B deal and there are not that many companies (MSFT is one of the few) that have that kind of cash on hand. And cash matters, since the bond market is such a train wreck right now, you’d have a hard time financing this sort of deal.

Leaving aside antitrust issues, it would be a hard deal even for Google. They have $12B cash on hand to MSFT’s $24B. They would have to issue a lot of shares which would have a dilutive effect, not to mention the chaos that integrating those companies would entail. I’d classify it as high-risk.

Of course, there’s always the skeery overseas buyers, who always come in on a cheap-dollar shopping spree. The Japanese bought up half of Hollywood’s studios and Manhattan’s real estate in the 80s. If YHOO shareholders are lucky, it’s been long enough for the EMEA shoppers to forget how that worked out.

By: Jaded

Jaded — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:44:44 +0000

Sounds to me like some pretty shady dealing going on. I hope the SEC takes a look at this and either finds nothing happened or that Yahoo was attempting to manipulate the market!

By: CKsting

CKsting — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:09:20 +0000

Good article and glad to see some tech blogging on the site.

Big question here, being a stockholder at 22.20: Who else could buy these guys? Google would not be allowed given the search and display monopoly.

I hate to say it, but Icahn may have been dead on with this one.