Decker: We Never Got $33 Offer in Writing

yahoo will be at 20 by the end of the week. Tuesday close, 22.15, Wednesday 21, naw forget it, by Friday, it will tumble to 17! how far thou art fallen oh fools

Greed by Jerry Yang. Period. At the expense of the other stockholders & future of the company. So much for making savvy business decisions.

I an glad that Microsoft failed , for whatever it means yahoo i love ya a lot more then them , What i mean is all big companies are evil in a way and yea yahoo can be put in that group what with the China stuff and Hiring that Neal Budde guy to ruin the news message boards but they are not microsoft

It could all be a publicity stunt to keep everyone riveted to the "takeover" keeping both Yahoo and Microsoft in the news and discussing the values and services of each. On the other hand, it could be Microsoft doing what it always does. Why are share values dropping just because Yahoo didn't let Microsoft suck them up for low bucks? Maybe because people are far too reactionary. Value is no less than it was 4 days ago. People reacting to their fears/angers/greed/younameit made the share prices drop. Get a grip. Let Yahoo do what they need to do to get the best price for it. The less Microsoft (or any company) has to pay, the laess that company will value their own investment.

These people are arrogant, incompetent liars. No wonder they've been so personally successful.

MS played a great poker game. But Yahoo will prevail ...just give it time ...it has both the resources and the will to make that turnaround.

Yang has an ego. His ego doesn't include the stockholders of Yahoo!

actually yahoo will be at 19 next week. They missed the window!

This reminds me of car buying experience where an associate asks you to write a price you are willing to pay and then sign the papaer so that he could take it to his boss for approval. Did Jerry ask for $37 in writing? I didn't see the counter from Jerry anywhere. Why did it take 3 months to get to this(written opffer of $33)? Even for a simple job offer, first companies negotiate and then make a formal offer in writing. This is soooo lame. Basically, they screwed up big time (as always) and now trying to cover up.

Yahoo + Microsoft = stronger America! UnITED!

I am very pleased I am no longer a Yahoo shareholder... Yahoo management are a bunch of hapless idiots. Anything over 23 dollars a share after all the quarterly dissappointments was a tremendous premium.

these board members are so filthy rich themselves they have lost perspective of what value means. After hearing sue Decker talk she should be fired as well. She did nothing but give meaningless double talk. Rule #1 of investing .. Never buy a compnay with bad management. They always find away to fail. She is clearly a double talking loser.

Once all hope of a Microsoft takeover has vaporized, Yahoo's stock value will plummet to a point somewhere below pre-Microsoft. Jerry Yang screwed this away badly. He and the board should be fired. They failed in their fiduciary responsibility out of personal greed.

It's funny. Mr. Yang, who owns Yahoo! Didn't want to sell. Greed? No. Personal greed would have led to sold. What it is,the way I see it,is an owner more worried about the company than personal profit. Of course, the other word for America IS "Greedland" so I'm not suprised that most average Americans don't understand high Finance or personal integrity. They would sell family for profit. Go America, the Country who Elected George W. Bush twice!

What a joke. You don't get offers like this in writing until after you come to some type of agreement. Until you agree in principle they aren't going to bring out 500 page legal agreements. The offer was certainly genuine. The movement Yahoo said "Ok", then they would get the agreement in writing. At which point they could argue about all the little points. Saying that price isn't the only factor is a joke. Your job is to look out for the interests of the shareholders. Unless you have a plan which brings them $12 per share out of thin air over a relatively short period of time, then you aren't looking out for their interests. Can you imagine someone executor holding say your childs investment fund saying, "There are other factors. You didn't really want $33 a share, so here is $20 and I've got no idea how to otherwise make up the $13 per share over the next six months." Microsoft is obviously waiting for Yahoo stolks to drop and then put in a second offer at say $33 again. Perhaps by then shareholders will realize that the board is supposed to look out after their interests. It is fine passing up a quick $3 a share if you have some plan to grow the company by 10% over the next few years anyway, but when you are talking about nearly 60% of the value of the shares with no real plan to make up that difference to shareholders.

Shorting maybe an option. Unfortunately, people need to consider the long term implication of such a deal. Big company hegemony is quite apparent in the actions by Microsoft. Why buy-out Yahoo? It's minding it owns growth and prosperity. Do we need another company to monopolize more of our internet search engines? Microsoft probably sees a strategic view of Yahoo. Recommendation: Create your own Search engine platform and use the Microsoft power to build as a competitor to Yahoo. Good Luck to all!

"If we execute." Thanks for executing your shareholders. I will see you at the annual meeting and no one on this board will get my vote.

We didn't know! Is that the best you can say! YHOO has the worse leadership in the sector. They have destroyed shareholder value and the best comment they can come up with is we didnt know what the full offer is? B.S. If they didn't know it is the role of the CEO and the board to find out what the offer is before rejecting it!

Yahoo can take care of itself and build the better mouse trap.... ....poor, underappreciated Microsoft wants to buy and ruin what it can't build itself. If a person invested in Yahoo as a gamble, then good luck with your gamble..... Microsoft knows it can't do what Yahoo can, so it plays games to drive down the stock price to win the battle..... ...this country needs more creative companies like Yahoo, and fewer Robber Barons like Microsoft..... ....Yahoo has delivered their products with great results...... that is the kind of results Microsoft has failed at..... Boo Hoo Hoo! ....we should feel sorry for a mediocre Microsoft...? ....heck No!

For you idiots that believe Yahoo should have taken the deal, perhaps Jerry knows something you don't. If you think he doesn't, you certainly don't have a clue either because you're too busy reading these stupid messages. Yahoo is a great company and has great assets. Sure, I go to Google for my searches but I use Yahoo for everything else. Try calling Google if you have a problem (you can't!). When I call Yahoo, the customer rep at answers the phone within three rings. I can testify to this because, as a small business customer, I refuse to use Google's other services because Google is complete ignorant about customer service. I agree that Yahoo's technology can be improved but remember that technology can be acquired, developed etc. Jerry, if you reading this, go out and spend a $1 billion for some great technology. It takes too long to develop it on your own. Search is Yahoo's weakest link so just buy it and close the gap.