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Microsoft Bids $44.6B for Yahoo

February 1, 2008 Leave a Comment

I open up my morning reading and here is the first thing that grabs me:

Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo

Of course, something of this magnitude the first place I went for comments was to the Scobleizer. After his stint at MS and his frustrated departure, I knew he would have some interesting thoughts (also a great link to all the buzz around this already).

My initial reaction is that this is a great business merger. Squeeze some huge operating efficiencies (aka, lay off alot of people) and give the combined entity a better chance to compete against Google…not say that they would be able to compete, as the result of that would be seen only a year out and there are a lot of decisions to be made between now and then that will impact the effectiveness of the merger.

I think actually making this work would be tough considering the cultural difference between the two. There would also be the potential for a large exodus of users who don’t want to support MS. Maybe a better acquirer would be Google…as if that would get past the regulators.

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Welcome to the career blog of Greg A. Lato (latoga). Discussing topics around business transformation & disruption, data management, ML/AI, IoT/IIoT, cloud, and technology flotsam.

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