All Posts Tagged With: "Yahoo!"
Yahoo Board Rejects Microsoft’s Bid
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo’s board will be declining Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion USD.
Yahoo will be sending their decision to Microsoft on Monday. Microsoft’s offer equates to $31 a share, and according to the Wall Street Journal’s source, Yahoo is looking for an offer of $40 a share or greater. The initial [...]
On Microsoft, Google and Fear
Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half of 2007. Yahoo, if not the most used search engine, is still the number one stop on the internet, edging out Google in overall traffic, [...]
2Feb2008 | Michael Lankton | 4 comments | ContinuedBreaking News: Microsoft Bids $44.6bn for Yahoo!
I’m stunned by the breaking story my boss has sent me that Microsoft have just bid $44.6bn for Yahoo! The price is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday, so it’s going to be a hard one for Yahoo’s shareholders to reject.
If the deal goes ahead it will be the biggest internet tech [...]
Breaking Google’s Stranglehold On The Internet
The backlash against Google’s recent moves was amazing to follow last week, and it’s been rare to see such little support for their actions. One of my favourites is from One Mans Blog who suffered a Page Rank 8 to 5 Page Rank reduction, even though they were in personal contact with Google’s Matt [...]
28Oct2007 | Everton | 20 comments | ContinuedThe Neverending Saga of Bad Webpage Decisions… Ad Placement and Impressions
Whenever I browse the internet, I am always on the lookout for good design, good UI, and other factors that make me say ‘wow, someone was really thinking’.
Lately, however, I’ve been on the lookout for site behaviour that really gets on people’s nerves. The kind of pages that can be a lesson to those [...]



