Microsoft!

Post by **Xouqoa** » May 4, 2007, 4:15 pm

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042007/bu ... _kouwe.htm

eep... not sure if it is true, but wow... that would be quite a move by MS if they were to gobble up Yahoo.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » May 4, 2007, 4:49 pm

Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo!.

Seems a bit high.

Xyun · Post by **Xyun** » May 4, 2007, 7:54 pm

actually talk of microsoft acquiring yahoo is not new. Jim Kramer said it may happen over 3 months ago, and there has been some speculation about it since on financial blogs and such.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » May 5, 2007, 12:55 am

I wonder when the dot com industry will fucking crash again. I should start a pool.

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » May 6, 2007, 9:08 pm

This time around there are actually revenues and net incomes behind the valuations. That being said, Yahoo has three times the P:E ratio of Google. Does that mean Yahoo is over-priced or Google is under-priced?

Some of the acquisitions going on right now are getting a little out of hand. 1.6B for YouTube and 3.1B for DoubleClick both seem awfully high (the Skype deal too), but at the end of the day, Google can make a strong case for justifying their market value based on current net income and growth rates.

Sarbanes Oxley put the brakes on tons of new IPO's, so I seriously doubt there are enough vaccuous firms out there right now to warrant a new crash.

Could be wrong tho.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » May 6, 2007, 9:45 pm

Please don't crash.. Finally starting to make some money again!

Xyun · Post by **Xyun** » May 6, 2007, 9:45 pm

I don't think the next crash will be a dot com bubble, it will most likely result as a domino effect from an asian crash. As it stands, if the china market sneezes i lose money.