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If Icahn Not Have Yahoo, Boo Hoo!

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 14 July 2008 - 12:19 · 11 comments & 4061 views

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In "Coma," patients' brains are killed during surgical operations, and their organs sold one part at a time to the highest bidder. According to Yahoo, Microsoft and billionaire business buster Carl Icahn are looking to lobotomize Yahoo and sell off the parts. There has got to be a movie script in the never-ending botched Yahoo takeover drama. Maybe Michael Crichton can write and direct again (he directed "Coma" and wrote the screenplay from the Robin Cook novel).

Yahoo tells the takeover drama's newest chapter in a press release/letter issued over the weekend. As of this posting, Microsoft had released no official response.

View: The full story @ MS-Watch

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#1 Pupik on 14 Jul 2008 - 12:26
Buried as lame for the title and also dupe: http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/07/14/y...-icahn-proposal
(2 replies) #2 HalcyonX12 on 14 Jul 2008 - 12:39
Allegedly, the only part Microsoft really wants is Yahoo!'s patent on paid search. link. This story would seem to fall in line with that theory. What a waste of a competitor in the market.
#2.1 toadeater on 14 Jul 2008 - 22:18
(HalcyonX12 said @ #2)
Allegedly, the only part Microsoft really wants is Yahoo!'s patent on paid search. link. This story would seem to fall in line with that theory. What a waste of a competitor in the market.


I think it's more than that. MS Live is doing terrible. It's got, what, 3% marketshare now? It's not even close to Yahoo. MS needs Yahoo badly, because MS Live/MSN is on life support right now. It's losing millions yearly. Without Yahoo, Live/MSN is irrelevant.
#2.2 HalcyonX12 on 14 Jul 2008 - 23:45
Then I wonder if there's any truth to getting rid of Yahoo!'s different parts. It would be bad for Yahoo!'s users and wouldn't really drive them to Microsoft.
#3 C++ on 14 Jul 2008 - 12:50
Daniel Fleshbourne, I hope your English professor never sees this article...
#4 Chipshop on 14 Jul 2008 - 13:22
I refuse to read this article due to the title and grammar.
#5 brent3000 on 14 Jul 2008 - 15:03
yahoo took a dive once again...
#6 XerXis on 14 Jul 2008 - 17:46
if this is not flamebait I don't know what is
#7 Airlink on 15 Jul 2008 - 00:56
Yahoo was brain-dead a long time ago. This selling of of it's body parts is just the logical outcome.
#8 boho on 15 Jul 2008 - 08:35
More poor journalism, it would have been far better if this started:-

In THE 1978 MOVIE "Coma"...

If this site is just a "repeater" (much as David Icke likes to point out) of dubious blogs and other poorly edited sources, the least that can be done is to tidy up the bad writing. Writing "news stories" dress-up with riddles need to de done carefully, repeaters need to at least clarify their repeats!
#9 empty on 15 Jul 2008 - 09:40
this article hurt my head. i stopped reading after i had to re-read the first line 10 times to even get a clue as to what it was about :s

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