[nirvana]

Maybe I'm off my rocker here, but this sounds like "suing your way into being acquired".

Is Facebook buying Yahoo not something Yahoo probably wants at this point?

Yes, I'm sure there's lots of reasons this might be a bad match- I didn't say I thought yahoo thought it was a good match. Yahoo might be really expensive (even today) for FB to buy. But it just smells that way to me.

[magicalist]

You're definitely off your rocker :)

Facebook usually does the acquire/hire thing, often without purchasing the companies' actual products, which means they're integrating the acquired devs. Yahoo has 4x the number of employees of facebook (where would they go?) and a number of products that would be totally new for Facebook. They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.

[aaronblohowiak]

>Yahoo has 4x the number of employees of facebook

Yahoo also manages a lot of content and editorial work, which is not in business units that would matter to facebook, and would be ripe for disinvestment.

>They would probably have to be run as they are now, by mostly the same org structure, which isn't at all like the more organic growth that Facebook has chosen so far.

Spun off and sold.

[temphn]

How things change. Less than six years ago, Yahoo was in talks to buy Facebook for $1B.

http://mashable.com/2006/09/21/facebook-to-sell-to-yahoo-for...

[sek]

That's a long time in this industry.

[sek]

Maybe with a partnership, or alone Microsoft. They tried it before, a buyout with premium would be around 25B i assume. Facebook is strategic important for MS, so it would make sense to sue them.