Microsoft's 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo
Yahoo has seen better days. I've always been a touch critic of Yahoo over the years because I don't see them innovating enough from within. Other than Pipes I haven't been too thrilled about anything under the Yahoo label for a long while. If Yahoo is good at anything they are good at recognizing talent and trends when they see it.
They gobbled up Flickr long ago which helped usher in an era of social tagging and photo sharing. They also snatched up delicio.us by far my most valuable asset on the web- social bookmarking rocks! But other than that I can't say I ever go to Yahoo for anything.
In the past few months they've really felt the pinch and its sent their stock sliding off into the deep until this morning when Microsoft noting the opportunity to by a rival, bid 44.6 billion dollars for the company.
Ouch was my first reaction. I don't want my precious delicious to be owned by Microsoft, thats like JC Penny buying up Nike or something. Something totally uncool buys a cool player and what do ya got? Lame cool? Weak cool? Distilled cool? I dunno.
The blogs of the planet are having a field day today, everyone has a bit story to tell, thoughts on the bid, what will become of Yahoo. ValleyWag in true fashion offers up a list of who will most likely be saved or axed in terms of people. Thats always nice to read.
Tags: yahoo, microsoft, valleywag, flickr, delicious
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