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The Microsoft/Yahoo mashup is a bad deal for consumers and advertisers, because it’s ultimately about eliminating a competitor. But the big winner isn’t Microsoft, it’s Google.
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This post is not about the potential Microsoft/Yahoo merger. Instead, let’s just assume for the moment that Microsoft succeeds in its bid for Yahoo. What would a Microsoft/Yahoo merger mean for startups in Silicon Valley?
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What you all are missing about Google
I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo.
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Any Yahoo! board member with a minute to spare should go to YouTube and watch Mr Ballmer, hooting and romping like a deranged gorilla, yowl “I love this company!” and then agree at once to accept his $44.5 billion offer for their firm.
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Yahoo has not reached a decision about Microsoft’s acquisition offer and is considering “a wide range of potential strategic alternatives,” Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said in an e-mail to employees on Wednesday.
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Microsoft’s proposal to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion raises many questions. Will Yahoo accept the offer? Can Microsoft win the approval of antitrust authorities in the United States and the European Union?
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Looks great on paper. The reality, though, may be something else entirely. Start with efforts to meld or eliminate overlapping businesses.
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The president of a Japanese mobile carrier that owns a stake in Yahoo said Thursday he is in talks with Yahoo chief Jerry Yang about how to respond to Microsoft Relevant Products/Services’s takeover bid.
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As the world awaits Yahoo Inc.’s response to Microsoft Corp.’s bold bid to buy the Internet giant, one analyst has come out with an intriguing take on the proposed marriage: It’s probably a ploy.
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If you’re looking for a grand strategic plan to explain Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for web portal Yahoo!, you’re missing the point.
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While the rest of us are worrying about whether we should be worrying about the credit crunch, Microsoft slaps down a cool $44 billion in its bid to buy rival Yahoo writes Peter Williams.
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If Jerry Yang is seriously considering cutting some kind of deal with Google to stave off Microsoft, he’d better make sure he’s got a good stable of lawyers.
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One of the first questions that Jerry Yang and his top lieutenants pondered after he became chief executive of Yahoo last summer was whether the company could remain independent. They quickly answered yes.
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In a high-stakes contest with Yahoo Inc. as the prize, Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. are setting their considerable legal arsenals against each other in an attempt to color the other’s motives as anti-competitive.
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