Microsoft: Yahoo!? No Thanks

[JMcEntegart]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said the company is no longer considering purchasing search competitor, Yahoo!. The news emerges following comment from Yahoo! boss, Jerry Yang who said the company would be wide open to a takeover big from the Redmond...

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[nekatreven]

This just gets better and better. This is like going back home to your highschool sweetheart and professing your undying love for them and then they're like...what was your name again? Even if MS is half bluffing...its classic. Yang is practically on his knees here.

I don't actually have anything against him or Yahoo, I'm just (oddly) getting a great deal of entertainment out of the fact they were so cocky and greedy and now they're more screwed than ever.

 

[squatchman]

Hey Yahoo!? Altavista called... your seat near the bottom of the internet food chain is getting cold again.

 

[Pei-chen]

Maybe I can pick up Yahoo at 0.1 cents a share.

 

[timaahhh]

LoL Altavista that is a name I have not heard in some time. Oh yahoo.

 

[ravenware]

Yang who said the company would be wide open to a takeover big from the Redmond company.

I am assuming that is supposed to be takeover bid.