Microsoft buying Yahoo?
Microsoft opened talks again with Yahoo to potentially acquire them for 50 billion $, it seems. As we've seen before, Microsoft’s profits continue to be staggering, they could buy Yahoo at this price with the profits of less than 1 year. I don't think it'd be a fit though. All the cool people would leave Yahoo, and it would open up space for another powerhouse to emerge. What would be the pros for Microsoft:- They get a web savvy company
- They get a strong brand and loads of traffic
- They get to strengthen their position in the advertisment market
- For us: Yahoo gets assimilated, which means Flickr and del.icio.us get assimilated.
- For M$: they get lots of internal competition. Yahoo just shut down their own internal photo competition. But now Yahoo Mail and Hotmail would be under the same roof, and so on.
- The cultural clashes might last 10+ years and be deadly.
# May 4, 2007