Holy $hi... MS buying yahoo

Prime Junta said:
There may be something to what you say. "What's good for General Motors is good for America" is a sentiment that, for a long time, defined the relationship between industry and government in the US.
Click to expand...
That statement referred to the many thousands of American jobs in the automobile and automotive industries.
 
Joined
Nov 11, 2006
Messages
1,807
Location
Orange County, California
But it was the CEO of General Motors who said it -- and the attitude persists. Many Americans do seem to have some sort of patriotic identification with American corporations. I think I can catch a whiff of it even here, in Lucky Day's interpretation of EU concern over Microsoft's dominant market position as simply a way to squeeze money from an American corporation.
 
Joined
Oct 19, 2006
Messages
8,540
I guess that's the way it seems. But folks I know up in the Seattle area tend to think most Americans are too hard on Microsoft and should lighten up with all the suspicions and criticisms.
 
Joined
Nov 11, 2006
Messages
1,807
Location
Orange County, California
I just hope that yahoo mail wont get merged with hotmail. Yahoo has been my main email provider for a decade and comes with excellent functionality in terms of filtering and storage, something I didnt experience with hotmail back when I tried it (does hotmail still delete emails that havent been archived after a certain period of time?).
 
Joined
Nov 4, 2006
Messages
2,013
Well, Google is apparently getting into the act:
Article on Yahoo News
But Google is painting a starkly different picture, asserting that Microsoft will be able to stifle innovation and leverage its dominating Windows operating system to set up personal computers so consumers are automatically steered to online services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, controlled by the world's largest software maker.

In a move that illustrates just how badly Google wants to torpedo the deal, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Friday to offer his help in repelling Microsoft, according to a report Sunday on The Wall Street Journal's Web site, which cited anonymous people familiar with the matter.

The assistance didn't include a counterbid, but may have included supporting other potential suitors, or a revenue guarantee in exchange for an ad partnership with Yahoo, the people said, according to the newspaper.
Click to expand...
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,834
I saw that yesterday, and my immediate thought was:

Wouldnt a Google-Yahoo merger be much more problematic than Yahoo-MS with respect to various anti-trust laws?
 
Joined
Nov 4, 2006
Messages
2,013
Google's already huge, and just acquired double-click, so it would be a very monopolistic merger. And they're already in the search engine business, so that might be a legal point of contention

However, from this news snip anyway, it doesn't seem that Google is actually in a position to outbid MS, or 'take over' Yahoo...they just don't want to compete with a MS/Yahoo conglomerate. That's the impression I'm getting anyway.
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,834
Looks like Yahoo turned MS down!!! MS stocks went down because of that..... I wounder if that is the last of it......
 
Joined
Oct 25, 2006
Messages
6,292
Now they're talking about it all going hostile.

"As we have said previously, Microsoft reserves the right to pursue all necessary steps to ensure that Yahoo!'s shareholders are provided with the opportunity to realize the value inherent in our proposal," Microsoft said in its statement.
Click to expand...
 
Joined
Oct 18, 2006
Messages
7,834
"...and so Microsoft suddenly became bitter, angry, and start to forced himself upon Yahoo after the sugar words failed and gentle advances been rejected...";)
 
Joined
Oct 19, 2006
Messages
1,028
Location
Malaysia
Is it just me or do evil empires never seem to employ enough people with sugar-word skills?
 
Joined
Nov 11, 2006
Messages
1,807
Location
Orange County, California
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom