Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo
Microsoft has placed a bid to buy Yahoo for 44 billion, Microsoft’s largest acquisition so far. Read more at Fox News. Here are a few Sephone opinions on the announcement.
Alan:
It’s going to be really good or really bad. It could be good because yahoo/MS together can compete with Google, and both will get better. It could be bad because their cool things like del.icio.us and flickr could get bad because Microsoft has a rep for being bland, bloated and generic; Delicious and Flickr are lightweight and personal. It’s good that somebody is going to try to keep Google from running away with the show.
Joe:
It better not happen.
Kelly:
If the quality of Microsoft services will affect Yahoo and their services, then we are really in trouble.
Scott:
Good for Microsoft, bad for Yahoo.
Justin:
If the deal ends up going through, it will be up to Microsoft to decide how much freedom to give Yahoo’s properties like del.icio.us and Flickr to allow them to innovate and grow. Yahoo has a major place in the Web’s history, and it’s still the top site in terms of traffic. What would the combination of Live Search and Yahoo mean for Google and the Web in general?
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