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To: Xenogenetic who wrote (14986)	1/23/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: t2	Respond to of 74651

I don't believe the Yahoo buyout rumor. However, MSFT has a lot of cash. What are they going to do with it? IMHO, they are waiting for the right opportunity to buy one of those search engines. An internet stock crash---would make MSFT very aggressive in their plans. Apart from Yahoo, are any other internet stocks even worth acquiring considering they already have a good portal, MSN? I think some sort of strategic deal is in the works, probably with AT&T once the DOJ approves its TCI cable takeover. It does not necessarily involve selling any internet properties to AT&T. AT&T could not acquire an internet portal considering the high valuations. AT&T internet content is not very good---therefore, doing a joint venture with MSN providing content (possibly MSN internet access being turned over to AT&T at the same time) is conceivable.

To: Xenogenetic who wrote (14986)	1/24/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Offshore	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

MSFT buyout of YHOO rumor. That is the biggest pile of garbage I've read on this thread. You actually think intelligent executives at MSFT consider a company with an office building and a bunch of PC's worth buying for that price. All someone needs to do is create a better web portal, and with the value of Yahoo, and fickle PC users, they could hire one hundred thousand people for a long time to create it. MSFT never gets it right on the first or second try, but eventually they do it. Take Frontpage. They bought it from a bunchof kids at Vremeer (?) for 'only' 100 million and have made a billion on it already in a few years. How could you possibly make moeny from a 300 billion investment in Yahoo. You can't. EVERYONE knows that. It's crazy that you would even WISH FOR THIS. The stock would TANK, and I would be out in a second. MSFT is for real. YAHOO is a joke of an investment. Laughing all the way to the bank maybe for some, but I couldn't sleep with that over my head. Anyone who holds Yahoo after seeing people starting to bail is a gambler. I may be proved wrong again on that stock as I almost shorted it twice over the course of the last 6 months. (gulp!) Glad I didn't.