M$ buying YHOO

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Shimon: Yahoo is the next Hotmail
Posted Feb 01, 2008

Jim Cowie: heh
Posted Feb 01, 2008

Jim Cowie: they're going to rename it "Bob!" and a long-frustrated dream will be fulfilled
Posted Feb 01, 2008

Shimon: Jeremy Zawodny: "This should be interesting. I predict that today will be one of our least productive days since 9/11 at work. Just guessing."
Posted Feb 01, 2008

smckenzie23: sounds like the yhoo founders and engineers think it is a bad idea, but as a public company it isn't their decision.
Posted Feb 01, 2008

smckenzie23: On paper, it makes sense for M$. But I don't see how they come out of this without screwing it up.
Posted Feb 01, 2008

smckenzie23: At this moment, I bet there is a fleet of google recruitment vans pulling up at the yhoo campus.
Posted Feb 01, 2008

todd: why is goog stock down on this, though?
Posted Feb 01, 2008

todd: maybe it's just just missing the earnings estimate
Posted Feb 01, 2008

Chuck: todd: Yeah I think it is just bad timing for Google. I'm still thinking of all the ways that this can go wrong. And flickr! Oh MS, please, please don't mess up flickr!
Posted Feb 02, 2008

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