This “buy ‘em up, sell ‘em off” strategy almost never works for anyone but the investment bankers who take their fees both coming and going. So as the silly battle continues around Microsoft and Yahoo, rest assure that pretty much whatever happens, you can expect to see a destruction in value rather than any “synergies” revealed.
Techdirt on Microsoft and Yahoo
14 July 2008
26 June 2008
So the question I’m left with is, if Yahoo execs are not really using Flickr in a Web 2.0 sort of way personally, can we really expect them to understand the tremendous innovation that Flickr represents for Web 2.0 in general? If they don’t “get it” first hand. If they don’t eat their own dogfood, so to speak, can we really expect them to truly take Flickr and social sharing in general where it needs to go?
Thomas Hawk on Yahoo
20 June 2008
Yahoo has over 500mm worldwide unique visitors a month. It has massive reach. It has massive scale. There is no reason it cannot and will not be an important business going forward. It needs to focus on monetization, rationalizing its products and services, and making money, lots of it.
A VC on Yahoo
18 February 2008
yahoo… Sorry, I can’t get up the enthusiasm to put the exclamation point into Yahoo anymore.
Mini-Microsoft on Yahoo
3 February 2008
This [the Yahoo! bid] is a de-facto admission by MS that they are unable to compete on the web.
Reddit (Comment) on MS-Yahoo Deal
21 January 2008
Based on doing site:markmail.org queries: Google has indexed 760k pages, Yahoo 19k, and MSN 4k. It’s not just the search algorithm that matters, it’s also the crawl algorithm, and we have a clear winner here.
O’Reilly on Google