Google Facing EU DoubleClick Objections
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| The extended review initiated by the EU pushed that date out to possibly as
| far as April 2nd, after deciding in an initial investigation they needed more
| time to review the case.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/01/google-facing-eu-doubleclick-objections
So, Microsoft offers to buy a /rival/ for $40+ billion, but it also attacked
Google's planned DoubleClick acquisition (just over $3 billion), **despite**
the fact that Microsoft offered almost double that amount for DoubleClick?
Read this:
Not a hoax: Microsoft offers $44.6bn for Yahoo!
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| When from 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN/Live) — as all the others are
| mostly jokes — you manage to only have 2 (Google and YahooLive!), I don't
| care whether they call it "oligopoly" or "monopoly".
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| The world is defenseless in front of the corporate greed, and we'll end in a
| world with no alternative choices. What's funny, the name of this Orwellian
| world is not "communism", but "corporative capitalism", supposedly in
| a "democratic free world".
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/02/01/12/42/32-not-a-hoax-microsoft-offers-44-6
Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo. Whither Zimbra?
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| Yahoo acquired the open source software vendor for $350m in September last
| year to expand its hosted mail and collaboration capabilities. It probably
| goes without saying that Microsoft isn’t going to want to maintain an open
| source alternative to Exchange, so would Microsoft set it free or take the
| opportunity to crush it like a bug?
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/02/01/microsoft-offers-to-buy-yahoo-wither-zimbra/
Related:
Microsoft Makes Bid for Yahoo
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| Microsoft Corp. Friday offered to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, a move
| designed to help both companies compete against industry leader Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120186587368234937.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
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