Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
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Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
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#2(2008)
Re: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
#3How is this possible when other reporting suggests that Yahoo just sold to Apollo for $5B?
Re: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
#4How is this possible when other reporting suggests that Yahoo just sold to Apollo for $5B?
By forgetting to add [2008] in the submission title.
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#6now back in the BABA stake
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#7> Yahoo would give Microsoft dominance in Web banner ads used by corporate brand advertisers
Wow for some reason I believed that by 2008 Google was already the dominant online ads player
Re: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
#8Honestly it is pretty crazy how old Yahoo is and they are still hanging on.
Re: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
#9Back in 2000, Telefonica bought Lycos for 12,5B$... A few years later were sold again for a few millions
Re: Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo (2008)
#10Maybe I remember it wrong but even in 2008 I felt that there was at that point some question of what ... Yahoo was / would be.
IIRC Yahoo at that point was a big name that wasn't irrelevant, but whatever they would be in the future seemed like it would have be be akin to creating new product(s) / company / sea change type move.
It was hard to imagine them becoming worth 66% more anytime near that time (even without hindsight).