Shark to tuna: “Join me for dinner?”
“Publicly, Google came out against the deal...”
Had Google done that privately, perhaps their stock wouldn’t have plunged $22!!! If a capitalist idea makes perfect sense, a communist will always be against it!
What ever happened to anti-trust legislation? IBM and the Bell System were both ripped to shreds of much lesser infractions.
It’s it ironic that Google is crying about anti-competitiveness if Microsoft takes over Yahoo in one breath, but then offering to team up with Yahoo in the next breath? Wouldn’t a Google-Yahoo alliance be a bigger threat to competitiveness??
Prepare for “improvements” in yahoo mail that include downloading an $80 app just to view photos.
I don’t see Google as a good guy with a white hat on in this. Google’s too close for comfort relationship with the federal government has allowed it ot be labelled the Federal Googlement by many. Besides, Google has just as many inside deals and job outsourcing arrangements as Microsoft does and even Yahoo gave their blessing to the communist Chinese spying on users and filtering their search engine results. Actually, I rather see Yahoo remain Yahoo and not be gobbled up by either of these two internet giants, not because Yahoo should be immune from business acquisitions, but because there are already far too many lookalike Google and Microsoft internet applications, but only one Yahoo. For variety’s sake, I’d like to keep it that way. Also, if Yahoo became just another Google or Microsoft application, it would be rendered useless and meaningless and I would no longer use it as I have enough Google/Gmail and Microsoft/Hotmail accounts and web-based services.