Comments on: A word on today’s announcement

By: Jacques Snyman | Website Design

Jacques Snyman | Website Design — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:40:27 +0000

I am happy that this never went through and that Yahoo! is still its own entity. It is important for the search world to have various very strong offerings, it keeps the playing field level and everybody honest. No monopolies in the internet please, and hats off to Yahoo! for leading the charge!

By: todd

todd — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:28:47 +0000

Hang in there, Yahoo!, hang in there. Say “NO” to Microsoft, “Slim” Pickens, and Icahn’t.

By: James

James — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:22 +0000

Jerry, the Yahoo! board is going to get sued for breaching its fiduciary duty to shareholders. The stock is trading around 21 and MSFT offerd 33 per share. What is going on around there?

By: David Meng

David Meng — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:30:18 +0000

Didn’t Yahoo try this with that other so called Corporate Executive that Jerry took over from. Just because someone has the “blessing of wall street and Carl Icahn” means nothing nothing at all. Icahn bought into Blockbuster and through his “superior expertise” ran in right into the ground.

Jerry do not let Icahn do that to Yahoo. Carl Icahn is just a robber baron that is how he became a Billionaire.
As with the comments by Dominic, Icahn should not have a say in the company anymore than the shareholder that owns 10 shares. If he wants to try to let him buy all the stock. But before he does that I would send Jerry a private note on what to do so that Jerry could regain control of the search engine business again.

By: =bg=

=bg= — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:44:30 +0000

Jerry, Yahoo! is an iconic brand on the Net. Keep doing what you’re doing- you invented it, you should have the chance to bring it back to the top spot. I believe in your efforts.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:46:22 +0000

As a shareholder, I’d prefer it if the board was made up of people who actually were voted in. I don’t believe one guy with 5% of the stock should get three board seats handed to him without demonstrable support from the majority of shareholders.

Mr. Icahn talks a lot about the governance problems in America and the lack of corporate democracy on the one hand, and then does a completely different thing by accepting this deal.

And Yahoo!’s board has no place making deals like this without consulting all of its shareholders via an open vote. For all we know, Mr. Icahn and his slate would not have won a single seat.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:15:14 +0000

Good Luck Jerry, I just hope Yahoo breaks Google Monopoly.They are just becoming evil and same is the case with Microsoft.Yahoo is my favorite search engine :)