4 ms·
Google mulling role in possible Yahoo bid
- arkitaip 15y agoAfter all that cleaning up that Larry Page has been up to lately? I hope not.
- manojlds 15y agoBut Google has been acquiring a lot lately ( of course, that includes Motorola ), so the cleanup can be to make room / money for the acquisitions.
- rjd 15y agoHow is that even a possibility while Google is currently under anti-trust investigation on the premise of being a virtual monopoly? A cynical person may think this is ploy to raise stock interest so you could ditch any stock you are stuck with...
- suking 15y agoIt's not - FTC won't allow it. Maybe they're saying this to drive up the bidding price?
- nextparadigms 15y agoThere's no chance the Gov would allow them to merge. They're just doing it to drive up the price for Microsoft.
- manojlds 15y agoSteve Ballmer said he thought MS were "lucky" that they hadn't bought Yahoo. I don't think he will think of going near it. Unless there is real chance of Google buying them, but I don't see that happening even if Google wants Yahoo, as the regulators will go berserk at that.
- TruthElixirX 15y agoI must have missed this. When did Google get slapped with an anti-trust investigation?
- rjd 15y agoThe current one is over favoring there own products in search results over third parties. Some of the evidence is pretty damning, I was quite surprised at the what they had put together. In general its over enhancements such as searching for a company and the first result is a Google map location with a nice thumb nail and a link through to the google review site as opposed to the actual business.
- notatoad 15y agosounds to me like yahoo is spreading rumours to drive up their stock a bit. there's no way that google actually wants yahoo.
- manojlds 15y agoEven if it is true, no way will this go through the regulators. Even MS had a hard time convincing when trying to buy Yahoo and later the Bing deal.
- samstave 15y agoOH DEAR GOD - can you imagine how if Goog bought Yahoo, Carol Bartz would take credit for "having set the company up for such an awesome acquisition".
- MichaelApproved 15y agoWill. Not. Happen. Yahoo is in the content business, Google is not. A more likely merger is with AOL or someone else that has more synergy, beyond search. Of course, there's also the antitrust issue.
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]