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Farber's Memo: Ballmer's big Yahoo vision

February 1, 2008, 1:39pm PST | Length: 00:03:22
ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks about Microsoft's $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. He analyzes Microsoft's strategy in search, the potential deal’s impact on chief rival Google, and what it would mean, overall, in the competitive online-search market.
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  • Yahoo is on crutches
    Is is just me or has no one else noticed the following:

    1) Yahoo mail has been kluging up for months now. It just gets worse.
    2) Yahoo MyYahoo home pages consistently freeze, displaying the message "Yahoo is experiencing technical difficulty"
    3) Yahoo Games servers are crashing to the point of being unplayable.
    4) Incredibly, Yahoo Merchant Solutions, has also become a less than dependable commerce solution.

    Yahoo is clearly in big trouble on the tech. Their financial woes have led to slow, steady erosion of their ability to provide the services they were once legendary for their dependability. I wonder why this angle never comes up in the press coverage. At this rate, within 6 months Yahoo will really start to break apart at the seams from a technical point of view. Any suitor, including MicroSoft, should take a break from visions of monetizing all those eyeballs. The eyeballs will disappear in a heartbeat once the tech deliverables fall to the tipping point, which may be just around the corner.
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    royswan
    13th Feb 2008
  • RE: Farber's Memo: Ballmer's big Yahoo vision
    In my opinion one yahoo deserves another.
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    msdead
    22nd Feb 2008
  • RE: Farber's Memo: Ballmer's big Yahoo vision
    I use both Yahoo and MSN for home pages. Each ahas things I like very well and a marrage could help both companies do more and really set the internet better in all ways.
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    wodahs1
    5th Mar 2008

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