Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo (Do you think the deal will happen?)

[Patchy]

Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.

The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday.

Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying to revive the company.

It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft.

Source : BBC News

so do you think the deal will happen?

Discuss :)

[Hyper]

Heh so much money for something so inefficient and useless

[redcar]

Microsoft really has an interest in it. This is isn't the first time they have tried to buy it. Like before they have had talks to merge etc., so I think eventually Microsoft will get what it wants.

[Gavin]

who really wants to buy yahoo? and what for lol :P

[Octo22]

I don't see how they could make yahoo better than google, the only service they'd benifit from is the email?

[thesphinx]

Same I don't think they could compete with google. but I think Microsoft will end up buying because they want it so much.

[Patchy]

Google is top and always will be unless they start tinkering with new stuff eg. starting service charges for mail etc. (like a gold service)

[Hyper]

Fact yahoo is an absolute piece of shit compared to almost anything, google beats it by 2 billion light years

[Sugaree]

I personally don't know. I mean if I knew how much money it would be in america then I'd change my option

[redcar]

Google have about 50% of the market share of searchs. Personally I really like Yahoo! but think about it. Yahoo! is a massive brand name, no matter if you like it or not and so is Microsoft. Combine two of the biggest brands in the market and Google could have a problem.