Is Microsofts Latest Acquisition Bid a Big “Yahoo” or a Big “BooHoo”?
Last week, the biggest news in the tech industry was Microsoft’s $44 billion plus bid to take over Yahoo, Inc. – the largest bid on record in the technology sector. http://www.wxpnews.com/080205-Microsoft-Yahoo This week, everybody has something to say about the offer – most of it negative. But then, negative talk about Microsoft isn’t exactly rare in either the mainstream or tech press. Interestingly, though, much of the commentary seems to be from folks worried about Microsoft’s well-being. Headlines such as “The Worst Deal of the Internet Age?” and “Is Yahoo Worth the Risk” and “How Yahoo Could Screw up Microsoft” abound: http://www.wxpnews.com/080205-MS-Yahoo-Deal http://www.wxpnews.com/080205-MS-Yahoo-Deal2 http://www.wxpnews.com/080205-MS-Yahoo-Deal3 Yahoo was founded in the mid-1990s by a couple of Stanford grad students as a search engine/web directory (its original name was “Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web”, which didn’t have quite the same panache). After the name change
