News - Yahoo willing to pay up to $800 million for Hulu

[HEXUS]

Follows recent cash splash on Tumblr but failure to grab Dailymotion.

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[AGTDenton]

Will it be renamed Yahulu?
It does amaze me that Yahoo! still have that amount of spare cash.

[iamlorro]

It does amaze me that Yahoo! still have that amount of spare cash.

Apparently people still go to their homepage?!

[AGTDenton]

Apparently people still go to their homepage?!

Microsoft employees searching for it on Bing

[AlexKitch]

In the words of Joe Swanson from Family Guy:

OH MY GOD! HOW CAN YOU AFFORD THESE THINGS?!?

[Champman99]

Will it be renamed Yahulu?
It does amaze me that Yahoo! still have that amount of spare cash.

I haven't looked into the details but I would assume that the bulk of most of these deals are for Yahoo Stock. Yahoo still has a market cap (Total Value) of $30bn or so, so plenty of value to dilute!

[rabbid]

So its now Yahuflukr?
so much cash to throw around while national debts are rising so fast, strange, but fortunate for them!