Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pure Networks: Financial News – Yahoo Finance. Congrats to Pure Networks team, to Pure alums, Pure investors, and Cisco for getting a great asset. Good luck guys!
Besides, even if the deal does win federal approval, you’ve chosen to become a pawn of the most dominant company on the Internet. How exactly is that going to lead to a brighter future for Yahoo?And here is some tough love for MSFT —
As a stock, MSFT is done – stick a fork in it. And not just past and present, which has seen the terrible performance mentioned and is the reason, for example, that the QQQQ underweights MSFT in favor of overweighting AAPL and others (despite its mandate to track the index). I mean moving forward. If you want dividends, there are far better plays. And if want equity appreciation instead, make a list of MSFT’s top competitors, throw a dart at it, and invest in whoever you hit.Lots of interesting views in there. Getting past the GOOG obsession is probably the most important one.
OK Yahoo could have been a Microsoft division, all of Microsoft’s internet ambitions would have been handed over to them, they would have been able to run semi-autonomously.
Or they can be ripped apart by private equity guys like Icahn — massive layoffs, milking their current traffic levels for cash flow, spinning off parts.
This is preferable? Did Yahoo management not foresee this??
