[General] Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo

[Majed B.]

Dude, that's not funny!

The whole Internet will be disgusting! Well, more than it is now! I'm
trying to get rid off the Hotmail account, so now MS is trying to take
Yahoo! so I get to get rid off my Yahoo! account as well! :/
What about all the Yahoo! services, shops, imaging galleries, ...etc.?
And what will happen to MSN? After all these years of building MSN's
network & reputation, will Yahoo! replace it?

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft  MS's revenue was
51 billion .. so the buyout is like throwing most of the revenue out
at Yahoo! which makes $6.7 billion
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo). Maybe MS is trying to get into
the services that are being offered by Yahoo!
One thing I know is that SanDisk has a deal with Yahoo! to serve MP3
music over wireless and people can shop from Yahoo! using SanDisks's
MP3 players. If Microsoft took Yahoo! I'm sure such a deal would hurt
SanDisk (and maybe other vendors) as MS tries to force its Zune
player.

Here's a short list of what Yahoo! acquired Till Jan 2007 (date of
article): http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquisition_pattern.php
They sure put a threat to Google.

I'd feel bad for Yahoo! employees, if that buyout ever went through
and the EU agreed to it.
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       Majed B.