I don't know that this is actually surprising. There are only 38 companies acquired. None have been acquired by Microsoft, IBM and many other large technology c

I don't know that this is actually surprising. There are only 38 companies acquired. None have been acquired by Microsoft, IBM and many other large technology companies. Consider this from a founders point of view, many of these companies may have had multiple offers. If you had an offer from Yahoo! and Facebook, or Microsoft and Google, which would you be more likely to take? This is part of what Marissa Meyer is going to try to change. At the moment, Yahoo! isn't a cool place to work. Plus, if you had the option of Yahoo! or pre-IPO Facebook equity, I assume you'd go with Facebook as well. Not a lot of faith in Yahoo! (or even Microsoft to a certain extent). It is believed (not sure if it's true) that Google and Facebook are more start-up friendly.