Yahoo investors seek Microsoft return Posted by XanTium | May 5 21:28 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From reuters.com: [QUOTE] Yahoo Inc's shares tumbled on Monday as investors punished the company for rejecting Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion bid, though the fall was cushioned by hopes a deal may still be possible. Shares of Yahoo fell as much as 20 percent in early Nasdaq trading before recovering some to trade at $24.47, still down 14 percent and far below the $33-per-share Microsoft offer. Analysts expect a flurry of shareholder lawsuits against Yahoo, even as the Web pioneer pursues possible deals with other Internet media and advertising companies, such as Time Warner Inc's AOL Internet division. But Yahoo's share fall was not as steep as the 30 percent plunge anticipated by some analysts, indicating there was still an "acquisition premium" built into the stock. At $24.47, the stock is comfortably above its January 31 close of $19.18, before Microsoft disclosed its unsolicited offer. [/QUOTE] Full Story: reuters.com

will this soap opera ever end ?

All YAHOO! is doing is using Microsoft's interest to keep their stock prices up (and keep their name in the news). In the beginning their stock prices went up in response to Microsoft's original offer. Now that Microsoft withdrew their offer.... YAHOO! wants them back....OH NO! You took away your offer and now our stock prices are down. PLEASE resume talks with us (although we said NO the whole time) so that our stock prices will increase again....PLAESE.



Dumb.

The REAL problem is the greedy people over at Yahoo. $40+ BILLION DOLLARS is $40+ BILLION DOLLARS more than you have now! You idiots.

Now to all you people who were screaming "poor yahoo" being picked on by MS. What do you think now? Now Yahoo has a bunch of pissed off investors. Their stock will more than likely plummit from this and a lot of people will lose a lot of money. MS taking over Yahoo wasn't a bad thing (for the company), it was the best thing that has happened to them in recent history. But now it may be too late.

I repeat this all the time but I'll say it again... "The point of any business is TO MAKE MONEY." Any thoughts other wise is simply being naive. Personal feelings has nothing to do with it, and if you think otherwise you're better off someone's employee... not a company official.

Elemino you are 100% correct.

Any of you that don't think it's all about money, then the corporations have you just where they want you.

Maybe Google has pulled out then as well, I read Google was in a bid for it, this is what happens when you ask for to much, you end up with nothing then you realise what an idiot yahoo have just been. But I still don't see the benifits for Yahoo to MS, for sure there tech can be used in theres but I doubt they can transfer there brand users over to Live search.

lol microsoft planned that all out lol.

from what i understand about why M$ even wants yahoo is because of add space and location. the way it was explained to me is that when the average person searches on google they very rarely see any M$ adds on the tops and sides of the page. although this seems like nothing to each of us. but when you take that times millions and millions of hits daily if M$ gets more hits that equal purchases on yahoo along with the live search and the little thats on google. they are going to make a huge profit down the line. not to mention the add space on yahoo mail, yahoo instant messenger. they don't really care about any technology they can handle that on their own. as a self employed business man myself i understand that add space can make or break your company. the more you get, the more people see you out there, the more money you make. thats why placing adds is sooooo freakin expensive for commercial companies. personally what I think will happen is that yahoo stock is going to continue to drop and then when it gets super cheap M$ is going to come in and snatch it up and pennies on the dollar and yahoo is gonna feel even worse than they do now.

LOL... that would be so funny if it did happen. It would be a good lesson for them in business/economics.

LOL Yahoo! Idioots!