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Old 07-02-2008, 11:42 PM
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If this was all really true, why does Microsoft actually care so much?

Frankly, I doubt if MS would have been successful with Yahoo. Indeed, I think they would have destroyed the remain value. Of course without Yahoo, frankly they have not a cat in hell's chance of success. Mind set is completely different from Google.
Pretty much I would agree. MS does not have a clue what to do in the space and as Yahoo does not either, the two together would have likely been a very expensive calamity. But it doesn't change the fact that Jerry Yang really screwed his shareholders out of a lot of money. Business cases will be written in the future about exactly how and how badly he screwed the pooch on this deal.
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