[Zardon]

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

[niceguyrichy]

bad news
eventualy we're gonna end up with the whole bloody intraweb run by microsoft and google

[Iria]

In a responding press release, Yahoo! said the offer was unsolicited.

Here's the PPT from the conference call with the press.

[BlueMak]

I don't know what to think about this. I use Yahoo! for over 10 years now, I would hate for many of their services to go away.

[Zelig]

And Yahoo shares are up nearly 50% on this news...

That's a ridiculous amount of money, does MS really have nothing better to spend it on?

[ferret2004]

I seem to remember Microsoft suggesting they were interested in buying Nintendo, and Hiroshi Yamauchi was quoted as telling them to kiss his Japanese behind

[Vikingod]

I doubt MS will change much of what yahoo! does. By purchasing them, they now own the other portion fo the market and can compete with google on two fronts. It would be a pretty terrible choice to alienate yahoo users, and I assume that won't happen.

That is a ton of money though.

[Shaga]

This puts up a bit more fight against google and that's good. Otherwise we could end up being stuck in time.

[OmegaRED]

Somehow this made Googles stock value plummet.

[Robert McClelland]

45billion that would end the money to the housing market lol I mean fix it.