Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo would marry the world's biggest software maker with one of the leading Internet media companies, shaking up the market for online services such as email and advertising.
After a long time talks and billion dollar buyouts Microsoft and Yahoo have finally come to an agreement.
There is evidence for and against the existence of Bubble 2.0. It depends on where you look, and what your expectations are.
I like Microsoft, Yahoo and Google.
This merger is all about search engines and advertising. Where are the jobs? By now I'd think everyone would know that merger and acquisitions are what caused the current recession and economic downturn in the first place. It may make it easier to find things on the Internet, but it's already easy enough. I used Bing on several searches. I am not impressed. Today I performed a search for SQL SHOW ALL TABLES using Bing. What Bing returned was a web page for a furniture store. Google is favored to retain top search engine status for awhile.
Gauson writes in G'Blog August, 2009,
So why did Microsoft acquire Yahoo!? The answer is online advertising. This merger means more competition to the online advertising and search engine market. Microsoft is anticipating that a long-term merger with Yahoo! will give it the magnitude and understanding it needs to attract more users, advertisers and ultimately more revenue.
Even though the Microsoft-Yahoo! merger has increased their market share to a total of 28 percent in the United States alone, Google still holds the majority of it by having 65 percent of the market share, and it will be a tough fight for Microsoft-Yahoo! to try and persuade dedicated Google users away from their favourite search engine.
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There are people who have been Yahoo! Mail users since 1999. They are not thrilled that any part of Yahoo was bought by Microsoft. It's incredible that Yahoo's reputation as an Internet search engine attracted Microsoft as a partner to compete against Google when users can't find important e-mail in their inbox, sent or draft folders they know is there using Yahoo's e-mail search! They have tried combinations of searching for partial sender e-mail addresses, searching for character strings in the subject, searching for character strings in the message. Yahoo! comes back with a blank page. Or informs the users that the users have stumbled upon a problem that Yahoo is fixing.
Explain how this is happening. Yahoo! can search the Internet, but can't find e-mail on their own servers and in their own e-mail folders!
"Microsoft and Yahoo know there's so much more that search could be," said Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. "This agreement gives us the scale and resources to create the future of search."
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Has anyone else been unable to find their e-mail using Yahoo's search program?
Yahoo estimated the deal will boost its annual operating profit by $500 million and save the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company about $275 million on capital expenditures a year because it won't have to invest in its own search technology. An unspecified number of Yahoo engineers will lose their jobs as the company scales back, Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz told analysts in a conference call earlier this year.
Microsoft is possibly the only corporation that thinks it should dominate the Internet search industry. Why isn't there an anti-trust action against this merger? What would the problem be with Microsoft search engine being in 3rd place behind Google and Yahoo? Microsoft has Windows, the very successful Microsoft Office Suite and assortment of .NET products. Was merging Yahoo really necessary or did Yahoo need help?
It's another example of "if you can't beat the competition, buy them out."
This is what happened to US banking at the start of the 1990s. Are they sure the Yahoo engineers will find similar positions at other companies? Maybe they will have to go to work for Google.
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It would be nice if these corporations provided free laptops, free 24-hour WiFi and jobs that pay enough to support a normal standard of living in the United States.
Microsoft and Yahoo should step back and look at the big picture. Microsoft and Yahoo should be creating jobs, not eliminating jobs.
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There is a global recession. Unemployment is at the highest level in decades. The country has had jobless recoveries before. Microsoft offered over $45 Billion to acquire Yahoo at one time. This would have been a catastrophic blunder for Microsoft. This is the sign of the DOTCOM Bubble II everyone should recognize. It's all for Internet advertising. The $45 billion offer for Yahoo is comparable to the bailout GM and Chrysler received from the federal government. These dotcoms aren't making anything in the real world. They are making digital billboards for products some other company is selling. These digital billboards will appear as pop-ups that will blocked by millions of Internet users.
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At the Gates Foundation "We think all people deserve the chance to have healthy, productive lives." Willingness to spend $45 Billion to acquire Yahoo instead of providing more grants for thousands of students aspiring toward professions in science, engineering, medicine, architecture, fine arts, and music here in the United States displays a grossly narrow view of corporate responsibility.