Microsoft + Yahoo = No Longer a Recipe for Success
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| So once again, we have Microsoft throwing outrageous amounts of money late at
| what should have been an obvious merger for them a long time ago. I recall a
| discussion on the Gillmor Gang podcast at least two years ago that wondered
| when -- not if -- Microsoft would buy Yahoo! Most of those on the call,
| including me, said it was the only outcome for Yahoo! and the only way for
| Microsoft to blunt Google.
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| But that was then, and this is now. So the burning question today is not
| whether a Microsoft-Yahoo! mashup makes sense -- it has made sense for years.
| The question is whether it makes sense now, at this outlandish price, and if
| this in fact marks the point where Microsoft makes a desperate and
| devastating mistake.
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| Is the Yahoo! cloud built on Windows? Nope. So the model of Windows
| Everywhere is junk. Will the burgeoning Microsoft cloud and the aging Yahoo
| clouds work well together? Will one be able to absorb the other? I say no to
| both.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/62887-microsoft-yahoo-no-longer-a-recipe-for-success?source=yahoo
Yahoo's Openness Asset
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| What if Yahoo's main value isn't its search engine or its advertising
| business, but the openness that makes it more Net-native and hacker-friendly
| than Microsoft? Does Microsoft understand that this same kind of openness
| plays a large role in Google's success as well?
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/yahoos-openness-asset
Related:
Yahoo may consider Google alliance, source says
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| Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to
| rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with
| Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0362915520080204
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Faces Competition Scrutiny
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| Microsoft's audacious $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! could fall foul of European
| competition law, according to a leading competition consultancy.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6D714A80-16E9-4F25-94B0-B87519A3F182
With Yahoo, Microsoft faces antitrust fight once again
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| Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion purchase of Yahoo could subject the
| software giant to the kind of critical antitrust scrutiny from Washington it
| hasn't experienced in nearly a decade.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9862973-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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