…are what two newspapers are currently speculating. No official deal of any kind has been made yet but apparently Microsoft has started talking with Yahoo! about a possible acquisition. Wall Street seems to be pretty happy about the news, as Yahoo! shares jumped 14.6-percent and analysts say the move is crucial to beating Google. However, there’s a problem with the reporting here. Those two newspapers? One is the well-respected Wall Street Journal while the other is the sketchy-as-hell New York Post (25 cents baby!). But hey, everything the Post prints is true, so this deal has gotta be happening.
So let’s say this deal does end up going through. Yahoo! is a pretty big company and it’s going to take a lot of cash for Microsoft to buy it out. In fact, early reports estimate that MS will have to pay around $50 billion or so for Yahoo! Inc., which is a lot of friggin’ money. Guess we’ll have to wait until Monday or next week to see if anything comes out of these talks.
I hope that Yahoo! continues its operations seperate from Microsoft if the purchase does happen. The web is becomming more and more privatized.
Microsoft and Google are buying everything. Although the latter is fine, the former I’m concerned about. Microsoft only has its own interests in mind whereas Google is improving the net.
If Microsoft has 50 billion to BUY yahoo… why don’t the SPEND the 50 billion on msn and create the most kick ass search/community in the world… 50 billion is a heck of a lot of money. That being said, they have it in cash reserves just sitting there gaining interest… so to them, its chump change.
Jon
ummm, i don´t belive such claim, it is too big, even for Microsoft.. what i heard was that they were to struck the biggest partnership deal ever and work closely together.. let see what happens.
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