Tag Archives: “Yahoo”
Yahoo is Screwed
So Yahoo officially announced that its talks with Microsoft have concluded they have once again failed to reach any kind of deal. There are reports that Yahoo may soon announce a search deal with Google. They’ll basically be outsourcing search to Google. Throwing away a core competency key to its long-term success for short-term gain. In my eyes I feel like Yahoo really botched this whole thing.
Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion
Well I fire up my RSS reader and of course the big news everybody is talking about this morning is Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Yahoo. I always thought this would be a good thing considering there’s just no way Microsoft by itself can compete with Google in search. Microsoft’s share is just too small and while Yahoo is ailing, it has lots of valuable assets and web properties (aside from the obvious main Yahoo portal), hence the enormity of the offer. If it happens, it would be one of the largest, if not the largest tech takeover. Microsoft can probably fund a huge chunk of this acquisition using cash they have on hand.
Building the Next Yahoo
So my dad was asking me about what I do and with my limited grasp of the Chinese language, I basically told him that I designed websites. I really do a lot more than that but as long as he got the gist of it, there wasn’t that much more I could explain in Mandarin. So then he tells me, “you should build a big, successful site like Yahoo.”
I had to chuckle. Okay, let me get right on that.
Look out Yahoo. Look out Google. In about 5 years my secret [ insert absurd meaningless word here ] project is going to take the online world by storm. Seriously.