Posts Tagged with ‘Microhoo’

Anyone else tired of "breaking" Yahoo/Microsoft news? The New York Times is reporting that Yahoo has issued yet another infamous statement rejecting another offer from Steve Ballmer and his new best friend Carl Icahn. As usual, Yahoo held an emergency board meeting, "evaluated" the offer, and issued a statement to the media.
Don't they teach Negotiations 101 in business school anymore?
Even the youngest child knows that when you get an offer you don't like, you offer something else in response. It's [...]

I feel like the image that needs to go with this post is a stack of waffles judging by the amount of times we've written about the Microsoft and Yahoo on again / off again buyout affair.  It's made even more disappointing by how much I like Yahoo and how cringe-worthy its decisions throughout this whole mess have been.
I said recently that with the recent exodus of Yahoo staff, it had never been more ripe for the picking, [...]

Yahoo is turning out to be the Hillary Clinton of the web these days: running a campaign to save itself that is on its last legs and refusing to stand down and let the more stable web candidates win. It doesn't help matters that it is being pursued in the most schizophrenic manner possible by Microsoft, or that its own shareholders have long since had it with the shenanigans on both sides.
It is hard not to grow increasingly bored [...]

Yahoo is pulling out all the stops in its quest to either prove it can compete with the big boys like Google or at least convince Microsoft that they are worth more than the initial bid before turning themselves in for their Micro-Borgification.
Their latest move appears to be a release (or possible resurrection) of a long-rumored framework somewhat similar to Google Gears. Right on the heels of their official external launch of Fire Eagle comes Yahoo BrowserPlus, At the present [...]