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  1. 02-10-2008 10:08 PM #1
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    Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    Ok, the news has been spreading since this morning when Microsoft announced that they will buy one of the largest search engine companies in the world, Yahoo! Inc. It has been speculating that they had a really close relationship due to the Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger integration. Now that Microsoft is forking over $44.6 BILLION USD in cash and stock, one may wonder ... what will Microsoft buy next? The whole Internet?
    More on Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...pping-cart.html

    I'm totally against this takeover since I use some of Yahoo's services due to my ISP, since they have an agreement with Yahoo! to host all my emails and etc. This also means that if this goes through, all major Canadian ISP services are in the mercy of Microsoft since Bell already uses Microsoft services in the first place.
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    Another thread has already been started over this. In the same thread, you'll notice a post stating that Yahoo has already rejected the offer.
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    Yahoo rejected it. I don't think anyone was for it. If Yahoo accepted, they would have committed suicide.
    I wonder how much they would pay for Google ;)
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    Yahoo may already be committing suicide anyways, but that's another issue.

    As for Google... well, let's just say I don't see that happening any time soon.
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    I doubt google will sell out to microsoft, they're pretty much ran by the fbi. ;)
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    Google and Yahoo made a deal didn't they? :P So Microsoft couldn't buy Yahoo or something like that.
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    I don't think Yahoo have rejected Microsoft's deal. They are still in talks and we cannot expect anything.
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    There was report that yahoo have rejected this offer
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    Re: Microsoft To Buy Yahoo!, Yay or Nay?

    I last heard Yahoo! rejected it as well
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