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Craig Turner

4:42 PM on 19 November, 2008

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I read recently (TimesOnline?) that it would be a good buy for....Apple(!). They have 24Bn in cash, with no debts. I do believe that would be enough with change to buy Yahoo! I certainly believe that it would be a cool idea for Apple to do so. To bring the Apple image to the long standing users of the internet who still love Yahoo! It certainly would have the internet buzzing with speculation as to what direction it would head should Apple do such a thing. Personally I feel Yahoo is lost without a major computer company behind it such as MS or Apple. Ever since the boom of Google who is also a money magnet, Yahoo seems lost as to what to do now. Usually people stick to their own ISP's homepage or Google, oh and some are forced to use MSN homepage. To use Yahoo! is to know of the company from the very beginning, which is good but won't bring new people to it without a new direction/backer.

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Gordon394

5:10 PM on 19 November, 2008

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@Craig - perhaps, but Apple is heavily in bed with Google. Just look at the mass of iPhone ties-ins: Google Maps, YouTube, native Google search, default Google browser homepage, etc etc.

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Craig Turner

9:31 PM on 19 November, 2008

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True, but it didn't stop Google from coming up with Android and the G1. Google, at the moment, wants its name on as many products as it can, at the end of the day its more coverage even with it being on the iPhone. Knowing Apple's history, they are not shy of stepping on peoples toes either! If its good for Apple, then Jobs wont hesitate in making the decision to go ahead regardless of tie-ins with other companies. I'd certainly be excited if Apple were to do such a thing. Widen their MobileMe, iTunes intergtration into Yahoo! Music. Flickr and other Yahoo! subs could easily be intergrated into Apple's way 'vision'....Food for thought.

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HSC

9:51 PM on 19 November, 2008

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I just think the whole thing was a stealth move to get Flickr...which since the failed bid they have pushing forward Live Wave 3

and that I'm surprised Yang lasted this long.

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darkspark88

2:21 AM on 20 November, 2008

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It's widely viewed in business articles that Microsoft are still going to buy part or all of Yahoo. Removing Mr Yang was clearly the obstacle of any deal being done. Microsoft may return to the table after his successor has been installed.

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