Microsoft Just Can't Quit Yahoo

itwbennett writes "Back in October, rumors surfaced (and then quickly subsided) that Microsoft was considering another bid to purchase Yahoo. Now the rumors are back, and this time Microsoft is said to be in talks with other prospective buyers about some kind of partnership to acquire the troubled Internet company."

Re:APPLE should buy them

[SeaFox]

Why? When they can just lock their user base into an iSearch, iJobs, iGroups? The interface will look even better and the search results will essentially be the same anyway.

Okay, I think you're missing the point here. There is no iSearch, iJobs, or iGroups. Apple doesn't have spiders crawling the Net or a big index of results already built up. The grandparent poster is suggesting Apple buy Yahoo and rebrand all their properties as you suggest rather than having to build them from scratch. There's no reason Apple couldn't redo the interfaces and give them hooks into OSX/iOS while keeping the valuable back end.

Yahoo is still relevent

[Soupster]

If you look at their quarterly reports Yahoo is quite profitable actually, and they are still the third most used website on the internet. In terms of user minutes they trail only slightly behind Facebook (#1) and Google (#2).

Additionally, their patents have separate value [forbes.com] that can be quite powerful if used offensively, as all the smartphone manufacturers are doing now.

Re:Yahoo is still relevent

[tsotha]

Yahoo Japan is actually a different company. I think they were part of Yahoo originally, but were spun off.

Re:I have $5

[shutdown -p now]

It is not ment to be used for any other purpose than for developers to start playing with the new APIs using HTML5 and JavaScript

The new APIs are not restricted to HTML5 and JS. C++ is there, and so is .NET.