The big news in the tech/business world today is Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo. I wouldnt really be affected by the merger directly. I don’t really use any of Yahoo’s or Microsoft’s products. I’m starting to use Flickr and I use Yahoo’s fantasy sports (by far the best) for my leagues but other then those two thats about it. I canceled my Hotmail account years ago. I do use a PC at work but I’ve got an Apple at home that I like more; Google for most of my online stuff.
This seems like a pairing that would be very hard to pull off successfully (something AOL-Time Warner learned the hard way). I can understand joining to fight Google but there has to be a larger purpose then just that, right? And what would happen to all the overlapping products? Would they merge them? Not to mention you’d be talking about a new company with approx. 90,000 employees, thats not nothing. So many questions, I guess it will be interesting to see what happens.
you’ve gotta find my call of the microsoft-yahoo merger from like 2 years ago on your website…they should hire me