Yahoo is fighting back

Posted on February 10th, 2008 in Stock Market by David H Walker

So, Yahoo rejected the buyout by MSFT.  Interesting.  Very intrigued to see what happens to the Yahoo stock on Monday morning on the trading room floor. Will shareholders start selling their stock, or perhaps will another company (Google perhaps) make a higher bid?  Or even if Microsoft comes back in with another higher bid, that should be interesting.  Glad I purchased a few shares when I did. This could get interesting.

On another note, there is about to be spin-off created in TimeWarner.  They’re about to create a new separate company for their AOL counterpart. So, according to the book I just read on investing,  this is an excellent investment opportunity. I don’t have the extra capital to invest, but if I did I would buy a few shares of Timewarner and also AOL once it spins off into a new company. The idea behind investing in a spin-off company, is that the whole reasoning behind the spin-off is to better support the main purpose of that organization. By focusing more heavily on it, and not having to dilute focus on it to other counterparts of the business, profitability will inevitably skyrocket.

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Microsoft + Yahoo = who knows what

Posted on February 4th, 2008 in Stock Market by David H Walker

All the buzz lately in the tech world is about the bid that Microsoft put into to buy Yahoo!.  Some people are pretty anti-deal, but I think it could be one for the record books.  I always enjoy when the internet landscape totally transforms.  Google made it transform—hell, they’ve OWNED the internet for quite some time now.  I’m not saying, “give somone else a chance.”  I’m not saying that at all.  I’m saying bring it on…because free market competition is fun and it breeds crazy innovation.  I want to see what happens to the Internet landscape when the playing field tilts a bit.

On another note, here are two points of interest for your curious individuals.

  1. I posted a comment late last night and linked back to this blog on a post on a related story on CNN, “Google: Will Microsoft monopolize the Internet?” because, one, the story is interesting to me, and, two, I was curious to see how much traffic it would generate.

    So far I have received 35 hits. I suspect the hits will go up throughout the day since people will most likely read this story while they’re at work.

  2. I’ve been reading a couple books on the stock market lately.  And it just so happens that the announcement for Microsoft to buy Yahoo! happened the morning after I had an active E-Trade account.  So, I figured, what the heck, so I bought a few shares of Yahoo! the morning the announcement was made as my first test into the market.  When I say a “few”, I mean 3.  Heh, 3 shares isn’t much.  But it’s fun to have watched it grow a bit as the buzz spreads.  Curious to see what it closes at today.

    Ironically, I also own some MSFT stock, of which I’ve held onto since I was 16.  Just 11 shares, though.  I’m curious to see if there’s a significant rise in MSFT if the deal goes through. In case you didn’t know, Yahoo’s stock rose 9 points the day the buyout was announced.

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