Image: Microsoft and Yahoo Corporate Brand Identities
My friend Dean commented recently that he bet Yahoo was wishing they had accepted Microsoft’s offer to buy the company not so long ago. When he made the comment, Yahoo stock was at $14.50.
I just looked today and Yahoo stock is at a whopping $8.95 according to Market Watch. Microsoft’s offer was $33/share when Yahoo and Jerry Yang said no to the offer and felt rebuffed that they would be offered so low a price and would never sell to a company the likes of Microsoft.
I still think Yahoo should sell to Microsoft. …read more

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of the earlier sales negotiations with Microsoft infuriated many shareholders.

What do you make of this latest development? Personally I think it’s exactly the thing that I expected to happen eventually. Yahoo’s Yang didn’t make any friends with his bold rebuff of Microsoft’s original offer.
There’s the talk …read more

I’ve been watching the news around the webs about the latest developments the Microsoft and Yahoo! relationship.
First of course was the all out attempt to come in, guns a-blazing and take over the floundering company and take advantage of some serious name and brand exposures.
That didn’t work out so well as Yahoo! CEO, Jerry Yang, wasn’t too keen on the idea even though it appeared that most board members were liking the idea. Yahoo! ended up balking on Microsoft’s offer and Microsoft walked out the door.
I never expected them to stay away, I actually expected the Yahoo! stock price …read more