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To: Swordmaker

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

Amazing, isn’t it?


2 posted on 04/11/2016 7:36:54 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind

So if you owned Yahoo stock in 2008, today you’re... beating your head against the desk.


4 posted on 04/11/2016 7:38:52 PM PDT by gogeo (Donald Trump. Because it's finally come to that.)
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To: ConservativeMind

What the Hell was Yahoo thinking? I would have took that offer and signed it in blood.


6 posted on 04/11/2016 7:40:07 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Rafael Cruz: Canadian-born, Cuban ancestry, ineligible for POTUS)
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To: ConservativeMind

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.


25 posted on 04/11/2016 8:01:41 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: ConservativeMind

Even more amazing is that back in 1999, apparently Page and Brin of Google were offering their company to Excite for $1 million (cue Dr Evil meme). The current market cap of Google is in the neighborhood of $500 billion. What a crapshoot.


53 posted on 04/11/2016 10:19:40 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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