[FoRK] Balmer's Folly?

[Tom Higgins]

Reading the headlines and feeds today it seemed all about Yahoo loosing big
time. Thanks to
 kottke for bring the numbers home to roost.

http://www.kottke.org/08/05/yahoo-stock-plunges

The day before the offer
 YHOO = $19.18/share (market cap: $26.4 billion)
 MSFT = $32.60/share (market cap: $303.6 billion).

After the bid falls

 YHOO = $24.37/share (market cap: $33.5 billion)
 MSFT = $29.08/share (market cap: $270.8 billion).


 Yahoo gains $7 billion
  MS lost $33 billion.


Yep, its seems its a bad day to be a bald headed sweaty little turd in
Redmond.

-tom(balmers folly, i hope that sticks)higgins