Perki

Yahoo Destroying Shareholder Value, Internet Balance of Power

Though there is some duplication, an AOL + Yahoo ( Yaol? , Yahaol? ) merger would appear to be the only course of action for growth. Absent that, Yahoo has a good technical group, lots of Internet assets and traffic. They just need to identify a few good strategic niche areas from those assets and focus on them, they could remain profitable.

MSFT/Yahoo would have been a disaster from a business point of view, but would have bailed out those shareholders that made an untimely investment in the company.