The Industry Standard - Yahoo to accept Microsoft acquisition - Comments

Yahoo will at a minimum

Steven forsythe — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:04:55 -0800

Yahoo will at a minimum reject this offer to get MSFT to increase the bid

It's quiet likely that MSFT

Lev Danilov — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:05:49 -0800

It's quiet likely that MSFT has got something up their sleeve; acquisition of Yahoo will give them an opportunity to implement. Google is right to be worried about this. After all, becoming a second Netscape is not a pretty picture.

It's too cheap.

Jack Powers — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:16:21 -0800

It's too cheap.

Google & Yahoo have worked

Denish Patel — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:06:43 -0800

Google & Yahoo have worked together previously & this is the reason why Microsoft is bidding for Yahoo. However I don't think Google is going to take it easy, as Microsoft-Yahoo together would be
very good competition for Google.
This will result in MS raise the bidding amount per share. & surely Yahoo won't be accepting the offer by the said date.
You know where I've put my money on ;)

I believe MSFT will have to

Ben Silverman — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:04:32 -0800

I believe MSFT will have to raise its offer to at least $37 per share.

Elisabeth Jane Bertrand Elisabeth — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:16:43 -0800

I think Google should be more than prepared for this event. I'd expect such a wise team to have a well thought out strategic contingency plan. You can't win this with PR, legal talk nor with last minute attempts to create strategic alliances. Microsoft is proving to be a wise old owl.

well working Prediciton

calle nilsson — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:27:09 -0800

well working Prediciton market, Good job guys

Oligopoly (corrected,

Andrew 9 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:32:45 -0800

Oligopoly (corrected, where's the spell check Standard!?!) exists so no acquisition necessary at this time. More likely is MSN to buy ASK or AOL or another second or third tier search engine.

I believe this tender is a move by MSN to draw Google out of the weeds since there is talk of a partnership between the two.

My question is who are the four firm's in the search Oligopoly or is there one at work at all here?
Oligopoly
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Oligopoly is a common market form. As a quantitative description of oligopoly, the four-firm concentration ratio is often utilized. This measure expresses the market share of the four largest firms in an industry as a percentage. Using this measure, an oligopoly is defined as a market in which the four-firm concentration ratio is above 40%.

This is a "Hostile"

Todd Regan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:52:55 -0800

This is a "Hostile" take-over attempt by Google. Yahoo will likely reject Mr. Softy's offer. However, shareholders of Yahoo! may be much more likely to comply.

So, while I voted against Yahoo saying "I Do," I do think a forced wedding in in the cards.

But this story is still quite fresh. Google will do their best to make a counter offer or play the regulatory damsel in distress. It is too soon to make a good judgment on where this will go, but Microsoft has the bucks and Yahoo is a company in trouble.

Too bad that a MS/Yahoo merger probably won't give Yahoo what it needs most . . . a sense of direction.

And that's the way I see it,

The Dusty Sage

More than likely Yahoo will

David Yates — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:52:32 -0800

More than likely Yahoo will accept the offer, but then will probably get nixed by the US DOJ because of the past dealings with Microsoft. It may well happen after the election to nix this deal but right now or even if this happened a year earlier the DOJ would have probably blessed this deal.

Wouldnt bet my life on it

Sam Feuer — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:42:00 -0800

Wouldnt bet my life on it but overall to me it makes good sense. Jerry Yang-Gates.

1) Oligopolies exist and are

Alexander Hughes — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:31:18 -0800

1) Oligopolies exist and are a great way to do business. 2) Microsoft has learned that its Midas touch is intermittent at best; having been burned in this space previously, they will seek to buy a quality player. 3) Google and Microsoft hate each other for a reason. If Microsoft is going to hit Google hard, they need Yahoo!

Yahoo to accept Microsoft acquisition

The Standard — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:18:30 -0800

This prediction had an aggresive closing date of Feb 6, 2008. The bid was not officially accpeted by Yahoo by that time. The prediction was closed by the market, and the community consensus that the prediction would not occur was correct. A new predicition with a closing date for mid-March has been posted. --The Industry Standard

According to the New York Times, Microsoft offered an unsolicited bid to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 bilion.

This is a prediction that Yahoo will accept the healthy acquistion bid by MS.

If Yahoo accepts, the internet consumer business as it is known today will be no more. The overall control of eyeballs (Yahoo serves approximately 500 million pages a month) combined with Microsoft's MSN/Live suite customers on top of their ad networks could be enormous.

This rumor has been floating around for over a year. The bid has finally taken place. Betting in favor of this prediction implies you believe Yahoo will accept.