Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover

Posted by brk on Thursday February 21, 2008 @07:11AM
from the news.yahoo.com dept.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080220/tc_infoworld/95445

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by prakash on Thursday February 21, 2008 @09:11AM (#120417)

3 birds with one stone.

1. Yahoo employees are greatly benefited in case they get fired

2. All those distracted Yahoo employees have some motivation to stick around and see how this Yhoo-msft thing pans out

3. The acquisition just became more expensive for microsoft

Looks like yahoo is not going down without a fight -- good for yahoo.

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by klein_waffle on Thursday February 21, 2008 @11:37AM (#120511)

But they are going down.

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by redorb on Thursday February 21, 2008 @11:51AM (#120518)

I see them getting forced a lot then giving up, and selling for around $34/share. I don't know how having (2) competitors is making less competition than (3).

Yahoo's new Hadoop system could help get the higher price.

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by gruseom on Thursday February 21, 2008 @12:57PM (#120560)

Does anyone know if this also applies to the 1000 employees they announced they were laying off a couple of weeks ago?

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by hernan7 on Thursday February 21, 2008 @01:12PM (#120570)

Can't MS just cancel the severance plan after buying Yahoo?

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Re:Yahoo protects employees in case of Microsoft takeover by Xichekolas on Thursday February 21, 2008 @10:34AM (#120466)

Can anyone say mini-poison-pill?

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