[ConservativeMind]

“Microsoft had made a $45 billion offer for Yahoo in 2008, which Yahoo successfully fought off.”

Amazing, isn’t it?

[Swordmaker]

Yahoo! is up for sale. Could Apple bid on it? They have the means and perhaps the interest among a lot of other high tech and other non-tech companies. — PING!

Yahoo! For Sale
Ping!

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[Swordmaker]

I know, I know, obligatory Marissa Meyer photo . . .

[SaveFerris]

[Marissa Mayer is toast]

Good. Been predicting that for some period of time. Yahoo has become a disaster.

[Rufii]

Yahoo e-mail used to have this wonderful feature in which you could sort messages in alphabetical order by sender. That made it easy to manage e-mail, as messages from a particular sender might be deleted en masse while others could be dumped into a folder for later viewing. But they got rid of this feature.

Those ads they started running to the right of the messages get annoying after a while, but to get rid of them, you have to pay a fee.

So I voted with my feet and now use Google for my e-mail.

[AU72]

I’m thinking Google would love a strategic buy.

[Jim from C-Town]

It Left winged itself from a fifty billion dollar company to an eight billion dollar company.

She has done a marvelous job!

[Fungi]

I hope there are no buyers and this piece of crap sinks slowly into oblivion. Serves them right, liberals never learn and are incapable of it.

[libh8er]

I have to ask ..what really qualified this babe to be CEO of such a huge company. She was an early hire at a successful startup where she used to design the look and feel of web pages. But other than that what did she really do ? I read she pissed off a lot of people there before being forced out.

[DrJeff]

Bartz and Mayer took Yahoo valuation from $45B to a projected $8B in 8 years....Supposedly $10M/yr goes to Couric.

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.

[Dr.Deth]

Yahoo is for sale; bidders line up; Marissa Mayer is toast

I would still butter that toast.

[dayglored]

Maybe Microsoft will buy Yahoo -- it's a bargain now compared to $45B eight years ago ... PING!

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[JohnBrowdie]

“Toast” will come out of this with many, many millions of dollars.

[Intolerant in NJ]

but-but - she’s a woman - isn’t that enough to bring her and her company great success???.....

[bubbacluck]

So far no audio of her, umm, irritating laugh. Thank you, all!

[DaxtonBrown]

I’ve got my shiny quarter ready for my bid.

[Moltke]

I just noticed...I’ve been online since before Yahoo was even founded...and I have NOT ONCE visited that site in all that time...

So I guess I still won’t miss Yahoo when it’s gone...

[SunkenCiv]

Yahoo would have continued to do well, if only it had built better spam filtering for their email system. Wotta POS. Thx.