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Title: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo
Post by: Zapranoth on February 01, 2008, 09:54:59 AM
http://www.cnbc.com/id/22947600

"We will take your distinctiveness and make it our own.   Resistance is futile."


Title: Re: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo
Post by: raj on February 01, 2008, 03:04:43 PM
I remember when AOL bought Time-Warner and thinking it was a seminal moment. . .


"What, we still have to make a profit?"


Title: Re: Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo
Post by: BoyScoutKevin on February 07, 2008, 07:53:35 PM
I remember when AOL bought Time-Warner and thinking it was a seminal moment. . .


"What, we still have to make a profit?"

And now they are looking to spin off some of the components of AOL into separate entities.

And, of course, Google is fighting the merger of Yahoo and Microsoft in the halls of Congress. And no doubt, they'll fight it in the courts, as well.