Who on Earth Would Want to Buy Yahoo? | Epicenter from Wired.com

Who on Earth Would Want to Buy Yahoo? | Epicenter from Wired.com: "Who on Earth Would Want to Buy Yahoo?
By Betsy Schiffman EmailJanuary 02, 2008 | 4:17:40 PMCategories: Yahoo

YahoocowWhile pundits yap away about how Yahoo is fresh acquisition meat, we find it hard to believe. The company is pretty pricey, with a market cap of roughly $33.5 billion, and the number of businesses that could actually swing it is minuscule.

We understand why internet industry watchers think Yahoo is in play. At the very least, it's in flux. Former CEO Terry Semel was ousted last spring, management is fleeing the scene in droves, and the stock is drifting.

But even if Yahoo's business has been dwarfed by Google, its revenue is still growing (it grew by about 12 percent in the third quarter); and more importantly, co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang, who own roughly 10 percent of the company, are dead set on executing on a turnaround plan."

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

I dunno. It seesm to me that Yahoo would synergize with MS. Why would it need to be a buy out as opposed to a merger?

Yahoo could also merge with Google. Ther G-men still do not have a friendly portal for all their appware.