Abhijit Speaks :

Finally, yahoo! got what it wanted!! or should I say what it deserved? I believe the amount microsoft was offering yahoo was much more than the worth of the company. Here is a quick summary of what Yahoo! is actually worth. At Fridays closing prices Google was quoting at about 15 times its earnings, whereas yahoo was quoting at about 38 times its earnings. Which one of the two is cheaper? Now it is upto yahoo not only to prove that the price MSFT was paying for yahoo was just, but they’ve to transcend that, lets see whether yahoo is up for the task.

Ofcourse, yahoo is a company which is known for Royal screwups right from not acquiring Google (in hindsight that was a good thing to’ve happnened) , applied symantics and so on… You cannot have chairman of an Internet company who’ve not used Email before joining the company!!

Personally why I would say yahoo is a short!! Yahoo mail puts mail from my own Yahoo ID sent to myself into “spam” folder. It does not stop at that it goes well beyond that asking me to fillup a captcha so that spammers cannot use Yahoo for spamming. If a company cannot get such basic things right, I doubt why MSFT was paying such an exorbitant price for YHOO, or it was its own way of letting GOOG know that they are chasing them? Are they really?

I must confess atleast one great product yahoo has got is its Finance portal. It is certainly neat.

Next bid for YHOO from MSFT will be at 15bucks a share and Yahoo won’t decline it!!