Microsoft wants to purchase Yahoo

[Oreo]

Microsoft are off on one of there clever little (more like HUGE) spending sprees... they recently aquired logitech for a mere 19bn. Which was smart, as Logitech was there only major competitor in the peripherals market, and if they get yahoo now, they have a strong cmpetitor over google. So if they now go and snap up Apple and Sony... they have no real competitors

Although they would have to have serious cash to get sony... Well i just read Nintendo took over sony with a market value of £26Bn, so maybe Sony is in M$'s reach. They could take over the world.

Edit:

Lets all go on a search for oil... some american company called Exxol or something like thats took in over 35bn profit in a single year

 

[KCRMYZ]

Google Gas, Coming Soon*

 

[CntdwnToExtn]

sure would be interesting if M$ cut this deal.
quit frankly, i only use yahoo! i can count on 1 hand the amount of times i've used google.
i open my browser, it goes to yahoo canada and i have everything there - sports, news, email, search engine.
now technically yahoo vs google is wrong imo since one is a directory and the other a search engine - proving 2 totally different things....

 

[nOcLuE98]

I can count on one hand the number of times I have used Yahoo! in the past two years. I read the newspaper or tech forums for my news, and everything else I need on the internet I either know where it is, or I use google...


GO MICROHOO!

 

[dario03]

Microsoft are off on one of there clever little (more like HUGE) spending sprees... they recently aquired logitech for a mere 19bn. Which was smart, as Logitech was there only major competitor in the peripherals market, and if they get yahoo now, they have a strong cmpetitor over google. So if they now go and snap up Apple and Sony... they have no real competitors

Although they would have to have serious cash to get sony... Well i just read Nintendo took over sony with a market value of £26Bn, so maybe Sony is in M$'s reach. They could take over the world.

Edit:

Lets all go on a search for oil... some american company called Exxol or something like thats took in over 35bn profit in a single year

I don't see Microsoft buying Apple since that would defiantly be a Monopoly unless another retail OS comes out.

 

[nOcLuE98]

I don't see Microsoft buying Apple since that would defiantly be a Monopoly unless another retail OS comes out.

plus, apple wouldnt sell out.

 

[Harper]

"He Who Controls The Spice, Controls The Universe"

Sorry, but why is it that every time I hear about MS wanting to purchase Yahoo, I get this quote going through my head.

 

[Apokalipse]

Why is Microsoft trying to compete with Google anyway?
that's like Boeing trying to enter the oil market against OPEC

 

[Harper]

Why is Microsoft trying to compete with Google anyway?

Compete is the wrong word. Try using the word control.
M$ --> IE --> Yahoo --> Information

It's reminding me about James Bond :- Tomorrow Never Dies or a what if Rupert Murdoch purchaced an Internet Search Engine.

 

[Apokalipse]

M$ --> IE --> Yahoo --> Information

information, they can get without yahoo.

Besides, the market is already being dominated by Google, and that's not likely to change, with or without Microsoft buying Yahoo.