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Information Technology News Microsoft will miss out on the best of Yahoo! | Microsoft will miss out on the best of Yahoo! |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 05 February 2008 | |
  
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Yahoo! inc holds 33 percent of Yahoo-Japan, Softbank 41 percent and the rest is publicly traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The company's current market cap is $US23.46b, compared to Yahoo!'s $US25.66b. However, Eurotechnology notes that 'Yahoo-Japan is in much better shape than Yahoo! inc: Yahoo-Japan's profit margin is close to 100 percent, while global Yahoo! inc's profit margin is about 18 percent." Its operating revenue, however, is only about 25 percent that of Yahoo! inc. Eurotechnology observes that "Given that Yahoo-Japan is far more successful than Yahoo!-inc, and that its directly linked to one of the world's most advanced mobile operators, Yahoo-Japan might be the most strategically interesting part of Yahoo for Microsoft to acquire - however Yahoo-Japan is not part of the potential deal, it seems." Softbank acquired Vodafone's Japan operations for $US15 billion and turned them around within six months to become becoming Japan's third largest integrated fixed and mobile operator. |
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