Rumor: Apple buying Yahoo?

Quote from total_keops:

They have a real big share of the e-mails, comparable to hotmail I think.
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Studies have shown this doesn't matter, as placing ads from within e-mail accounts is not very effective, but, hey, neither is spam.
 
Quote from efficiency:

That's what a "professional" would do. Flip coins too?




I can see buying on a rumor.
I seem to get on the wrong side when I buy a longer term
hold based on the underlying price like oil, or other facts that I
can look at for trends.
When I trade my usual slow steady short term cheepo
stock, that I been following for awhile now, I make money.
No news or any factors seem to matter, It goes down, then up,then down
etc.
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I've always wondered if gmail and yahoo mail are losing businesses. I almost never logon, so I see ZERO ads. But I download via IMAP multiple times daily.
 
YHOO is acting interesting. Started postive today as the market was up and then dropped as the tech stocks dropped and I call the drop as distribution for YHOO. Now the buyers are coming back and there is a high chance that YHOO might close green again.
 
Quote from bwolinsky:

Lol.

Yang is a moron. Rather than sell at what clearly was way more than the company was worth he wanted to keep his job and maintain his personal status quo to the detriment of every shareholder even though it would have been more prudent to sell the company than let microsoft retract its bid.

There is no advantage for AAPL buying YHOO. None. Zero. I haven't seen or heard any rumors on my newswires and I follow a lot of wires. (Maybe with respect to AAPL, I see there has been some talk about YHOO but none with regard to AAPL acquiring YHOO).

Apple should not risk its strong balance sheet to gamble on any other company or growth prospects but their own. All any acquisition would do, especially one as large as Yahoo!, is send the stock price plummetting because not only would it really be just a huge drain of capital, but there is no other company in the world that has the internal cash flow that Apple does. So much so that they will keep growing, and the world would be coming to an end if they ever stopped selling iPhones.

I don't believe Apple needs to make any acquisitions, especially on a third rate company like Yahoo!.

PS: Every study in the country that's been done on search effectiveness shows that Google is superior in every way to any search engine you'd like to compare. Secondary databases built from third party financial reports like reuters are not an advantage or reason to use Yahoo's search engine, as it is clearly inferior just like every other search engine that isn't Google.
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I agree with you on that GOOG is far superior to YHOO in search engine and growth but in order to compete, you don't or cannot buy the first rate competitor. The good thing about YHOO is that it has lots of potential buyers even if AAPL rumor does not come true. This news has been confirmed by a newsrelease from YHOO itself on last Friday. So possibility of a take over is not a rumor anymore but AAPL/YHOO rumor is still a rumor.
 
Apple buying Red Hat is unlikely, and these bets are not worth it IMO (kind of like the VC model - a broken one), but buying red hat as a brand hedge for the PC market - versus rolling out PC OSX Unix - might be a good idea. Although I don't get the point of beating up Microsoft... Steve Jobs is obviously much less worried about this given the run in huge markup ARM devices Apple now sells.
 
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/alibab...BzdGNhdANidXNpbmVzcwRwdANzdG9yeXBhZ2U-;_ylv=3

this is how new owners of US are going to look like :

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DC must be happy by their achievements on destroying America on every single possible level in such short period of time.
good work! Thumbs up!China salutes you!
 
Yesterday trading volume for YHOO was 500% daily trading volume. Market melted and YHOO was up like 2.5%. 6AM on Monday, it even hit $15. Today (Tuesday) market is down over 1.5% and YHOO is up almost 2.5%. Don't miss this excitement. You can easily double your money in short term. YHOO will be sold in 2 months but who is the buyer? it is unknows at this moment.
 
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