Could a $2 billion + investment in Yahoo be Microsoft's "something big?"

[dipdude]

According to a story published in the "Heard on the Street" column in this morning's Wall Street Journal, Microsoft has considered, and is still considering, working out some type of equity partnership agreement with Yahoo, the terms of which have reportedly included either Microsoft purchasing a stake in Yahoo, or Yahoo purchasing MSN from Microsoft in exchange for Yahoo stock.

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/03/could_yahoo_investment_be_microsofts_something-big/

 

[EnigmatriX]

If MS buys into yahoo, then it can control not just yahoo but whole lot of other things such as flickr, del.icio.us etc. Hope Microsoft doesnt buy yahoo.

 

[Nikhil]

It cant buy Yahoo per se. Yahoo is too big to be bought like that.

But MS can buy a PART of Yahoo(say 5% or so) and that way, they will be able to merge(to some extent) MSN and Yahoo to take on google.

They could introduce special features for Y!mail and hotmail and stuff like that to take on gmail.

 

[Aditya]

Then well see Google winning hyeah:

Personally, ive already hated Yahoo . Dunno why. Must be coz to Messenger is so stupid. .

I dont think, even Msn + Yahoo will be able to do what Google has done and doing and will do .

 

[Checksum]

google will win, but at least microsoft will give it something more to think about..