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Read more.It has been rumoured on many occasions but now it's finally official. Microsoft has lodged a $44.6 billion bid to acquire Yahoo!
They *really* want to be a serious player in the search market don't they? Still, search based advertising is hella big business.
If Yahoo accept, this'll be huge. It'll well and truly take the fight to Google.
Let's just hope they don't ruin Flickr by merging it with Live Spaces, eeek, that would be ghastly.
How much?!
I wonder what they'd plan on doing with the Yahoo mail services considering it competes with their own offering?
62% over stock (close thursday) - it's going to be VERY hard to turn that kinda deal down.
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Don't you feel another hoarde of court actions in the offing here. Just leeching up the competion one by one.
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and then wiki comes up with wiki search !
I can't see how it would end up in court - last time i looked Google were waaaaaaay ahead of the competition and would still be bigger even than the collective share of MSN and Yahoo. That said I'm now struggling to find any up to date stats...
Wasn't that the end result of Google's last update?
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I'm not sure but I imagine they'd probably leave it as it is, maybe stop sign ups to the Yahoo service and gradually over time migrate people over, maybe offering @yahoo.com as an option when creating an email address for "Live Mail".
I wonder what they'd plan on doing with the Yahoo mail services considering it competes with their own offering?
Definitely a LOT of money though
Read more.It's all going to kick off in the online advertising market with Microsoft making its big move to challenge Google's dominance.
If this goes through, I'll feel sorry for anyone with an established yahoo email account. I used to use hotmail, but soon abandoned it when it started getting messy. Live Mail, Live Spaces, Passport, MSN Mail, Windows IDs, etc etc. I've no clue what any of the changes meant, other than more inadequate redesigns of the relevant sites to make them even slower to load, weighed down with superfluous fluff and adverts and news headlines and celeb gossip headlines and so on.
I vowed never to use hotmail again after I signed out a year or two ago, which redirected me to some MSN/Live/portal type site. But wanting to quickly log back into my emails, i couldn't find a single link that would take me back to a login screen that I could access a hotmail account with. Utter junk.
As already mentioned, it would be a real shame if they screwed up Flickr, too.
This is one of the biggest tech thing happening this year.
This is bigger than AMD and ATI merging - this is real world. Without doubt this is something which will shapre things up for the future, no longer is it about something to touch and feel, its about services and content....
The other thing which is key to this is it is about searching and sorting content. The information age which was rumoured about is truely coming home.
Also - what is interesting is that Microsoft sell a product - something which Google don't it's a free service and they have a totally different buisness model. Google still have the lead since they have a strong 'brand' which Yahoo used to have but they have dropped the ball recently.
This is big - real big - world shakingly big.
So Microsoft already have the aquantive they bought last year for I believe $6bn - so they now need an outlet to make sure the money cycles back through.
Good job we aren't in the market for selling adverts based around content huh?
What is next? Video sharing has to be next - YouTube went to Google, thats another string to their bow... Google build until they need to buy - and force others to spend serious money to make sure they have certain sectors covered.
Last edited by DR; 01-02-2008 at 05:04 PM.
To put it another way ..... about half(ish) what the UK taxpayer is into Northern Rock for.
I've had my yahoo mail account for a very long time now and theres no way I want MS getting their hands on it and changing it. Yahoo mail spam filter is second to none in my experience.
Yeah and instead of Microsoft, it's (probably) Virgin going yahoo!To put it another way ..... about half(ish) what the UK taxpayer is into Northern Rock for.
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