AT&T Tech Support 360Yahoo board to pull all-nighter? Nope
Update: This posting has been rewritten with an update on the Yahoo board status.
Waiting to hear how Yahoo's board meeting went Friday?
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, it can be summed up in one word: "undecided."
Yahoo's advisers apparently came in and gave their two cents on option A and option B, according to the Journal. Those options, it seems, may be undergoing some potential tweaking, with the prospect of possibly adding new players to both.
Yahoo's board is debating whether to take Microsoft up on its unsolicited buyout offer (which could potentially later include News Corp.) or team up with Time Warner's AOL and, possibly, Google, according to published reports in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Yahoo is looking to resolve the path it's going to choose, given that it faces a deadline within the next two weeks to do a deal with Microsoft, or face a potential proxy fight, exchange offer, and, possibly, a lower bid from Redmond.
While Yahoo was kind enough last month to extend the deadline for Microsoft, or any other shareholder, that wanted to name a slate of dissident directors, I wonder if Microsoft will do likewise for Yahoo, if it sits down at the table in the 11th hour.
According to the Times report, Yahoo's management is expected to schedule meetings with both Microsoft and Time Warner for next week.
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A merger with Ebay (as first proposed back in 1999) could save Yahoo. Ebay gets millions of page hits daily that Yahoo could translate into even more (joint website) visits. Imagine seeing a small box showing Ebay auctions closing soon on Yahoo. It would make up for the marked failure of Yahoo Auctions. And would bolster Yahoo?s marketplace against Google?s upstart ?Checkout? service?
Also having Yahoo-Ebay-Paypal under the same roof would be a force to recon- with?
Also, Yahoo needs to find a partner or create a unit to push more of their Yahoo services on cell phones. And at a more accelerated pace. Buddy-Beacon type services are in their upstart and would be a nice addition to Yahoo if they can pull it off.
Yahoo is becoming stale, that is why they?re lagging.
Com?mon raise your head Yahoo!!! Do something!!! You?re losing your touch?. The leadership of Yahoo must be getting too old? They?re not forward thinking anymore.
My thought is about when Yahoo Clubs was killed? Back when EGroups.com was purchased by Yahoo. Yahoo killed clubs and merged parts of it with EGroups.com?
Microsoft may kill off Live.com or Yahoo to merge those together and in the end people will probably defect because the separate services they grew to love would no longer be what they initially fell in love with?
When MSN-Canada sought to merge with http://www.Sympatico.ca They did that same thing? Killed off Sympatica.ca?s website (Which was owned by Bell Canada.) and they just sent all the traffic to MSN.ca basically?
The semi-good news though is if Microsoft lays off mass numbers of people at Yahoo, it could create a backlash because Microsoft will be creating a spawn of new people that will depart their company and go-off to create new companies that may JUST? choose to complement Google rather then Microsoft or Yahoo and if the Microsoft-Yahoo audience dwindles? they?ll be back to square one fighting to try and increase falling advertising dollars.
Anyway this isn?t the first time?. Anyone remember Steve Case standing up and telling a huge audience about when Microsoft said they wanted to buy AOL?
In his words:
http://www.businessweek.com/1998/29/b358?
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On May 11, 1993, CEO Stephen M. Case of America Online Inc. (AOL) found himself face to face with Microsoft Corp. Chairman William H. Gates III. AOL, then the third-largest online-service provider, had gone public only a year earlier, after some fairly rocky beginnings. Gates?the most powerful man in Corporate America?was telling Case in a deadpan tone: ?I can buy 20% of you or I can buy all of you. Or I can go into this business myself and bury you.?
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The fact of the matter is. Micro$haft NEEEDS this deal more than Yahoo needs Micro$haft?. Anyway
Yahoo has tons of potential suitors.
Ebay:
Then you?d see Yahoo, Ebay, Craigs?List, PayPal, Half.com, Overstock.com etc. etc. all under the same roof. Ebay would easily make up for the failed Yahoo Auctions attempt. And also Yahoo could rebrand the Ebay Stores of Half.com or Overstock.com to ?Yahoo Stores? or ?Yahoo Mall? or something and reap the big bucks from that. Also PayPal would be a big competitor to Google?s upstart ?CheckOut? shopping cart business.
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Article: Speculation: A Yahoo!-eBay Merger Makes Sense - Written by Josh Catone
Date: August 1, 2007 11:51 AM
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YAbay!!