Will Microsoft buy Yahoo?
Hot on the heels of Google's recent $3.1 billion acquisition of Doubleclick, there's talk of renewed efforts by Microsoft to snarf up Yahoo. I love how the mother-of-all-mergers scoop was broken by -- The New York Post? Link to somewhat more sober New York Times article that followed. Snip:According to the report, the new approach follows an offer Microsoft made to acquire Yahoo a few months ago, which was spurned by the Internet company.Update: The Search author John Battelle (disclaimer: BoingBoing's business manager, among other things) writes:
Yahoo/Microsoft makes less sense to me than Soverture, but then again, as predicted and discussed here and here, GoogleClick pushes these two into each others arms. It was the first prediction I made in January of this year. Not exactly rocket science.
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