Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
Posted on 04/11/2016 7:33:45 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The once-great Internet pioneer is entertaining offers...reluctantly. CEO Marissa Mayer would like to see Yahoo through its struggles, but impatient investors are looking for a way to cash out.
Yahoo (YHOO, Tech30) has reportedly given interested parties until April 18 to make their offers. The company is expected to fetch something like $8 billion for its core Internet business.
Who's buying?
The list of interested parties matches the potpourri of businesses that Yahoo operates.
Media companies, such as the Daily Mail and Time Inc. (TIME), are reportedly thinking of making an offer. A Daily Mail spokesman confirmed to CNNMoney that the company is looking at bidding for Yahoo.
Technology companies, such as Google (GOOGL, Tech30) and Microsoft (MSFT, Tech30), are also reportedly looking into bidding for other pieces. Though Google isn't likely to make an offer, due to antitrust concerns, Microsoft would like to preserve its relationship with Yahoo, providing Bing search results for some search queries. Microsoft had made a $45 billion offer for Yahoo in 2008, which Yahoo successfully fought off.
Verizon (VZ, Tech30) could also be a player. It owns Yahoo rival AOL and other media assets, and the company has publicly expressed interest in taking a look at Yahoo. AOL is like a mini version of Yahoo, with a sizable digital advertising and online content business. Verizon bought AOL last year for more than $4 billion.
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Yahoo appears to have lost innovation and creativity -- they have been on an acquisition streak for a while. Not seeing the strategy here, apparently investors are not either.
Wow, can see how she slept her way to the top!
Thanks - I will try to check that out!
Yahoo has really, really sucked under Marissa Meyer or whatever her name is.
Figures - that’s how she came off to me - turned Yahoo into social engineering uber liberal center.
And they crashed. What a surprise.
Sad. Yahoo is a surviver of the 1999 Dot Bomb along with Excite and Lycos. I used Yahoo until 2005 and switched to Gmail. Sure, Google has sketchy leadership. But Yahoo has twisted leadership that Myers could not control. Only the Lord can tell bad spirits to depart.
Myers gave an wonderful interview with her parents while working at Google. Too bad her parents were unable to help her turn the ship around at Yahoo. Yahoo is liberal, dark, anti-American, anti-Christian and just plain evil. If Drudge links to Yahoo, then I skip the story.
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You could read stories of Yahoo people that left or were forced out. They didn’t like her.
I bet she has an amazing Yahoo..
I would still butter that toast.
Google sent her to Yahoo to destroy Yahoo, a Google competitor.
Mission accomplished.
Pretty good cheesecake shot.
But I'm actually more impressed by her technical chops:
Intending to become a pediatric neurosurgeon, Mayer took pre-med classes at Stanford University. She later switched her major from pediatric neuroscience to symbolic systems. At Stanford, she danced in the university ballet's Nutcracker, was a member of parliamentary debate, volunteered at children's hospitals, and helped bring computer-science education to Bermuda's schools. During her junior year, she taught a class in symbolic systems, with Eric S. Roberts as her supervisor. The class was so well received by students that Roberts asked Mayer to teach another class over the summer. Mayer went on to graduate with honors from Stanford with a BS in 1997 and an MS in computer science in 1999. For both degrees, her specialization was in artificial intelligence. For her undergraduate thesis, she built travel-recommendation software that advised users in natural-sounding human language. In 2009, the Illinois Institute of Technology granted Mayer an honoris causa doctorate degree in recognition of her work in the field of search.Now if she'd only had some BUSINESS COURSES...
Myers gave an wonderful interview with her parents while working at Google. Too bad her parents were unable to help her turn the ship around at Yahoo. Yahoo is liberal, dark, anti-American, anti-Christian and just plain evil. If Drudge links to Yahoo, then I skip the story.
LOL, well said, but why don't you see it? Melissa Meyers IS the twisted evil spirit at Yahoo. She killed it for Google, that was her mission. She screwed up everything and drove good people mad and wasted their work and years of their lives and grabbed all the money she could. She's an evil witch, and very, very proud of it.
“I would still butter that toast.”
If she’d offer up some kind of new way, I’d be the first in line, Dr. Deth :-).
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
She is one of the original Google slime.
Interesting.
That's about it.
When do CEO’s ever pay for their mistakes?
I read that Yahoo’s ceo Marissa Mayer will get $365 million for five years of work at Yahoo.
Yahoo itself is worthless (in more ways then one) The US Yahoo is broke. The Alibaba investment is what is worth billions.
She gets fired and she gets more money then Yahoo is worth.....
http://fortune.com/2015/12/04/yahoo-marissa-mayer-severance/
People figured that out and the stock and the company tanked.
I'm waiting to see what housing prices will go to in the Bay Area, as they seem to be a lagging indicator.
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