In a bid to remain independent, Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover offer, according to reports on the Wall Street Journal's web site.
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
yay!
:/ not really sure why Microsoft wanted Yahoo.com Is ad revenue that profitable?
hah! I knew this was going to happen... I purchased like ??? yahoo shares at the news that microsoft may buy them... stocks went up... then It make sense that it would take a long time to even be approved ... and it may never be allowed since so many strong names like Google are against it which can slow the process.... so I sold... make some $$$... if you own yahoo stocks... and you don't want to lose money sell them... they will be worth what they used to before the bid.... which is $10+ less than today. And that's where is going once people know that the are rejecting it...
sharebuilder marketed grade this stock to D-(Sell) from B+(Buy) after this...
Now Yahoo is worth nothing... they will continue to bleed marketshare to Google until they are forced out of the industry...
Last time I checked Microsoft lost half a billion dollars on MSN last year while Yahoo made quite a lot of profit. Yahoo does not need Microsoft to survive, and they SHOULD reject this deal.
I use Yahoo about as much as I use Google, so I'd be pretty ticked if Microsoft started screwing things up on the Yahoo side.
some yahoo employees are still in trouble because Yahoo is going to have to downsize to cut COST, like most do.
It's either that or re-energize their business to compete with google, or buy other small companies that can make them stronger.
Now if this deal would of gone through, it just means much more would of lost jobs with MS take-over, but hey that's just business.
Either way, Yahoo is still exacerbating their options on what to do...Tough times ahead.
MS is in this to compete, when it feels threatened, then again weren't they saying Goggle has slowed down a bit. I wonder what investors are thinking on the yahoo side..44 blil