So, Microsoft (large company, you might have heard of them) has expressed an interest to buy Yahoo! (another large company, but the exclamation mark is their own doing) for a princely $44 Billion. Yahoo isn’t performing as well as it first did when it appeared on the internet so many years ago, partly due to Google now being the household name for “search” around the world. Google is continuing it’s attempt on world domination, and this understandably makes Microsoft unhappy that it isn’t the top dog. Cue MS looking at buying Yahoo! for a not insignificant chunk of change.
Yes, it would mean that the company would be the same size, if not bigger, than the “Do No Evil” Googlers, but I feel that the 1000 soon to be unemployed from Yahoo will not be happy about this at all. And I can’t blame them, especially since usually there’s even more “restructuring” once a takeover or merger happens.
Oh, if only I had money to spend on shares in the US…
[Via the BBC]
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This will never happen, Yahoo being bought out by Microsoft. There has always been a type of rivalry between the two. Google should just buy them up and completely own the internet.
Although your comment may have some merit, I’m more interested as to why Mr Kwan had suddenly changed his URL from his excellent blog to a site that apparently “answers all the questions you have about OLPC”, yet offers very little in substance, but lots of advertising… Hmm…
A check on a few other sites I know shows that there’s some idiot going around blogs trying to make people go to his site but using the top commentator of each site as the name, to try and get around the spam filtering and to avoid suspicion. Sneaky.
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Cool!!!