[JimOlenbush]

Another update from this evening

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/080519/yahoo...v=11&printer=1

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo Search only!

[Ryocheck]

I don't think Carl Icahn will let that happen if he can prevent it. I bet a full sale of Yahoo to Microsoft will still happen. Look at what Icahn did with BEA Systems and Oracle. In Icahn I Trust! LOL, Someone has to save my stock.

[Dallas Broker]

Originally Posted by Ryocheck

I don't think Carl Icahn will let that happen if he can prevent it. I bet a full sale of Yahoo to Microsoft will still happen. Look at what Icahn did with BEA Systems and Oracle. In Icahn I Trust! LOL, Someone has to save my stock.

very true, my sister worked for BEA systems and left right before acquisition. Oracle is standing proud 8.5 billion later, but many BEA employees are not.

[Jaysonnhs]

Yeah it seems likely that something will eventually happen and Carl may be a huge force behind whatever does pan out.

I'm not sure if a combined Yahoo and MSN will be able to compete but I'd like to rely a little less on the Googler.

[Portland Real Estate]

Interesting... I think the idea of Microsoft buying Yahoo Search only does make more sense then buying the whole thing. Although, it would be a fairly messy process to figure out how to separate Yahoo from Yahoo search.

[jay.robinson15]

Yeah I still don't think a Yahoo and MSN merger would compete with Google, but they might be able to take some more of the market away from them. Right now they'd have about 30% combined to Google's 65% I believe, with 5% going to all of the smaller ones combined, but maybe they could turn that into 40% with some good publicity and knock Google down to 55% or so. It would be good users to have some better search engine competition going on.

[OCTeam]

Maybe Yang has seen the light now that it will cost the stockholders $10/share and probably his job....but he "remains open to everything".... maybe Ballmer will just wait to see their stock go down further...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081105/yahoo_yang.html?.v=4

[Calgary Agent]

Originally Posted by OCTeam

Maybe Yang has seen the light now that it will cost the stockholders $10/share and probably his job....but he "remains open to everything".... maybe Ballmer will just wait to see their stock go down further...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081105/yahoo_yang.html?.v=4

Latest rumour making the rounds is Jerry Yang is going to quit before the Yahoo board fires him. Whatever is left can be picked over by MS &/or Google. Yahoo stock is trading down almost 14% today.

[REW Tyler]

Unfortunately once the google - yahoo ad deal was scraped it was all down hill. Yahoo still has plenty of good online real estate, including some new social networkings (fire eagle) and not to mention ymail/rocketmail that are generating a fair amount of buzz/traffic. Hopefully they will continue on as a company, as I would rather them continue on independently then be bought by one of the existing search engines.

[OCTeam]

Oops....Too late for Yang to quit!

National News from The Associated Press

Yahoo to replace Yang as CEO, ending rocky reign marked by rejection of Microsoft bid


11-17-2008 7:33 PM
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down as chief executive, ending a rocky reign marked by his refusal to sell the Internet company to Microsoft Corp. for $47.5 billion _ more than triple Yahoo's current market value.

The change in command announced Monday won't be completed until Yahoo finds his replacement. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said it is interviewing candidates inside and outside Yahoo in a search led by its chairman, Roy Bostock, and the executive recruitment firm Heidrick & Struggles.

"Jerry and the board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level," Bostock said.

Yang, who started Yahoo with Stanford University classmate David Filo in 1994, will revert to "Chief Yahoo," a titular role he filled before replacing former movie studio boss Terry Semel as CEO in June 2007. He will also remain on Yahoo's board of directors.

"I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation," Yang said in a statement.

Sue Decker, Yahoo's president, is expected to be among the candidates to succeed Yang, although she has been an integral part of the management team that has exasperated the company's shareholders.

Dan Rosensweig, who resigned as Yahoo's chief operating officer, also could be lured back as CEO, or the board could turn to one of its own directors, such as former Viacom Inc. CEO Frank Biondi or former Nextel CEO John Chapple.