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Yahoo, Lets start there. They never had vision. They had it all first and gave it to GOOGLE. For those of you new to this, Yahoo hired Google to do their searches. WHAT? Also Yahoo is the internet gateway for most all law enforcment, schools and local goverment.( Ad income ) If Yahoo knew what they had, or the vision to see 1/2 of their own potential, they would not be in this position. (to be bought) The ony thing worse than bad business is poor leadership. You can recover from bad business decisions with great leadership, but, bad leadership lives on till death. I could go on and on, but, why? Now, Microsoft. Why, you might say would they want a company without leadership ? The first decision MSFT will make after the merger will be to cut the fat and there ladies and gentlemen is where MSFT will prevail in this meger. The first to go will not be the engine of the company or blue collars, it will be the white collars.They won't say how many jobs overlap yet but you can bet management will be first to go (good ridence) Once MSFT gets thier hands on yahoo and puts thier own R & D to work on it there is no telling where this new corporation will go. MSFT has always thought it quicker to buy, sometimes steal,(if you believe the rumors) than invent so this is a perfect fit in thier business model. With one of the richest men in the world at the helm, I truly believe Bill Gates can hardly sleep waiting for this merger to go thru. Kinda like Chrstmas. Now more than the why is how much can we make from this play? Well for me, I say buy now, buy now, buy now ! Meaning buy as soon as the market is done post wipping MSFT, and they will and then what a buy. I never say buy and hold , I can't beleive it myself , but, buy and hold, Buy it for the long term. I don't think it can be beat by any other stock. One reason is Bill Gates will not let it fail. He will throw money at this until it succeeds, I might even buy and hold some myself. RICS PICS #1 stock pic of 2008 -MSFT-
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