This is what is going on in this picture.
Yahoo shareholders: *seductive* "Lets pretend we are interested in being bought."
Ebay: *indignant* "The next one to screw with me and my Paypal gets the bullet!"
Google: *Hungry gurgling* "Which one first?"
Bill Gates: *frantic* "I'll pay anything to make Microsoft competitive! $40 Billion? you got it!"
Skype: "Getting money out of my users is like drinking out of a salt lick."
Ok. Not really. But there are some interesting potential corporate combinations coming up.
A buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft would be a massive blow to Google and help consolidate Microsoft's tentative position in the search industry. Not to mention giving Microsoft access to the Yahoo faithful.
Yahoo shareholders: *seductive* "Lets pretend we are interested in being bought."
Ebay: *indignant* "The next one to screw with me and my Paypal gets the bullet!"
Google: *Hungry gurgling* "Which one first?"
Bill Gates: *frantic* "I'll pay anything to make Microsoft competitive! $40 Billion? you got it!"
Skype: "Getting money out of my users is like drinking out of a salt lick."
Ok. Not really. But there are some interesting potential corporate combinations coming up.
A buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft would be a massive blow to Google and help consolidate Microsoft's tentative position in the search industry. Not to mention giving Microsoft access to the Yahoo faithful.
But if Google got it's paws on Ebay that would give it impressive control of a very loyal user base and a fantastic payment system.
Then if someone could figure a way to turn Skype into a cash cow to fund these ventures...
Microsoft doesn't exactly have a great track record of making huge waves with aquired companies. In fact, I have wondered just what kind of acquisition it would take to put Microsoft ahead at something other then operating systems.
