{"id":262,"date":"2008-07-02T23:57:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2008-07-02T23:57:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T06:57:40","slug":"the-deal-that-wouldnt-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-deal-that-wouldnt-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The deal that wouldn&#8217;t die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commentators, having long since run out of <em>useful<\/em> things to say about YHOO+MSFT, only bemoan how it continues to drag out. In reality, deals of this size do tend to take a while. Microsoft (and specifically Ballmer) aren&#8217;t walking. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because they need Yahoo. They need search share&#8211;the deal with Google only puts on more pressure. But they also need a non-schizophrenic brand under which to put all their audience attractors. In short, I&#8217;d say MSFT has been terrible at tactics (and non-intimidation-based negotiating), and YHOO has been mediocre at strategy and terrible at execution. Maybe they are meant for each other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Prediction: by the end of the year 1) some kind of deal happens, and 2) Yang is out as CEO. $28.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I still hold long YHOO shares<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: The irony of this post is not lost on me<\/p>\n<p>-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentators, having long since run out of useful things to say about YHOO+MSFT, only bemoan how it continues to drag out. In reality, deals of this size do tend to take a while. Microsoft (and specifically Ballmer) aren&#8217;t walking. Why? Because they need Yahoo. They need search share&#8211;the deal with Google only puts on more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,26,1,15],"tags":[219,1162,1165,1159,218],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-microsoft","category-stuff","category-yahoo","tag-ballmer","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-yahoo","tag-yang"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-4e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}