NOAH BRIER ON MARKETING, MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND RANDOMNESS.

SEARCH

SUBSCRIBE BY EMAIL

LATEST ENTRY

COMMENTARY | Noah Brier

Jockeying for Position

February 5, 2008 | RSS | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS

For those of you following at home, Microsoft offers up $44 billion for Yahoo!, Google asks "Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?" Microsoft responds, "The combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising. The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet." And Eric Schmidt calls Jerry Yang to see if he can help. All the while no one can talk about anything else on the web, the stock is at $29.37 (versus the $31-per-share bid) and the $44.6 billion bid would place Yahoo! at number 91 on world GDP, directly ahead of Tanzania, Lebanon and Latvia, as well as 136 other countries.

Tags: business, google, microsoft, yahoo

PREVIOUS ENTRY | NEXT ENTRY

LEAVE A COMMENT

NAME:	First name, first and last, whatever you feel like.
EMAIL:	Required, but not displayed (so don't worry about spam).
WEBSITE:	If you've got one, flaunt it.
COMMENTS:	You can use some HTML (a's, br's, p's, oh my!) if you'd like, if you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.
	REMEMBER ME? YesNo