Yahoo reportedly in talks with News Corp

[maddezmom]

Source: Yahoo

Yahoo! reportedly in talks with News Corp.A Yahoo! News Report


Yahoo! Inc., fighting off a takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., is in talks with News Corp., according to a report on The Wall Street Journal's web site.

The talks, according to the Journal, are an attempt to fend off Microsoft's offer, which was initially valued at $44.6 billion.


For many, Yahoo! has come to symbolize the Web. Its playful name and colorful logo defined Internet style, and its signature yodel was a siren song for people who were curious about a new media known as "the World Wide Web."

Created in 1994 by a pair of Stanford graduate students as a simple directory of interesting Web sites, Yahoo! went public early in 1996. It was valued at $848 million after its first day of trading despite widespread suspicion about the viability of advertising-supported Web sites.

But the company quickly disproved naysayers by attracting mainstream advertisers and turning a profit.



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[Doctor_J]

1. Crap. I will have to change e-mail addresses

I won't patronize Rupert

[Ian David]

7. Delete your Yahoo email addresses and geocities pages now before Murdoch owns them. n/t

[nbcouch]

2. Jesus H Christ

F**k me, if they sell out to the Evil Empire, that WILL be the end of my ten-year association with Yahoo.

[DRoseDARs]

3. God, I'd choose AOL over this developement ... and AOL already screwed up my Netscape email. eom

[CatholicEdHead]

4. I have been on Yahoo mail for well over a decade

I would rather not switch, but it may be GMail.

[Ian David]

8. All Your Email Are Belong to Murdoch! n/t

[Robbien]

5. Yahoo caught between the devil and the deep blue sea

Either be eaten up by Microsoft, or be clobbered by Newscorp.

Can't win for trying.

[Ian David]

9. Too bad Working Assets can't buy them. n/t

[Ian David]

6. As if Yahoo! wasn't evil enough already.

Anyone stupid enough to be using Murdoch's MySpace, btw, DESERVES to be spied on.

[IndianaGreen]

10. Choosing between the evil Bill Gates and the evil Rupert Murdoch

Yahoo might as well commit suicide!

[David Zephyr]

11. Very disconcerting. I want Yahoo to stay competitive with Google, but not like this.

Yikes.

[CabalPowered]

12. Foxmail? F! that

I don't like gmail. Forget hotmail.

I think the time has come to just run a private email server. Mailtraq has a pretty good browser client.

http://www.mailtraq.com/