Comments on: Steve Ballmer’s Internal Email Explains Yahoo Bid

By: Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of February 2008 » Search Engine Optimization Blog

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:11:41 +0000

[...] Steve Ballmer’s Internal Email Explains Yahoo Bid It seems like only yesterday Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer was busy convincing the world that he was not interested in making a bid for Yahoo. Now TechCrunch has an internal company email that explains why Microsoft today made an unsolicited bid for the company. [...]

By: Paul Brain

Paul Brain — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:58:57 +0000

Cold war – Microsoft against Google – proceeds

By: Non-Surprise of the Day: Google Sees Microsoft Bid for Yahoo as “Troubling”

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:29:10 +0000

[...] while reading about Yahoo’s reaction to Microsoft’s proposal, I ran across this little tidbit from MarketingPilgrim.com earlier today. Apparently an internal email from one of the Microsoft executives leaked out, and it [...]

By: Jayson

Jayson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:56:51 +0000

This sounds like the easiest way for Microsoft to increase their ad center reach and market share, but I’m not sure either of these companies has what it takes to effectively compete with Google. It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out.

By: Zen

Zen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:58:10 +0000

To: bill s
Thanks
I understand

By: bill s

bill s — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:25:49 +0000

of late “branding’ has been a key word… in online business respect. Zen mentioned respect and tearing site apart as concern…

How will they deal with branding …. Yahoo online is a better brand name than MSN … so do they blend or drop a name that has cost billionds to build brand recognition???????

By: Zen

Zen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:34:47 +0000

“(…)joining with Yahoo!” Does this mean they won’t tear it up and respect the site as it is?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:23:01 +0000

I doubt they can touch Google even with their combined forces.

By: 44.6B « The Web Laureate

44.6B « The Web Laureate — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:28:44 +0000

[...] by point, product by product — Steve offers an amount that only Microsoft can afford6 new opinions for every two other — [...]

By: Mobile guy

Mobile guy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:35:26 +0000

I think MS will bury Yahoo.

By: OMG ! Microsoft want to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion | Athow.com, Tech life at its fullest..

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:25:48 +0000

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By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:15:10 +0000

Ballmer a scary guy but he will always be Monkey Boy to me. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1274983729713522403)

Stay Classy Steve!