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The biggest news to come out yesterday is that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo. Microsoft wants Yahoo so bad, they’ve offered $44.6 Billion which is about #31 per share. No doubt, this could be good news for Yahoo which is already set to lay off about 1000 employees.

I find it amazing that Microsoft actually made this bid. Even if the shareholders for the companies agree to this, I cannot see anyway that the US and EU anti-trust lawyers would allow this. Huge company acquiring another huge company. Yeah, that has anti-trust written all over it. I’d expect Google to voice concerns.

Here are some additional articles that cover the news:

• MSNBC: Microsoft makes unsolicited bid for Yahoo
• Mashable
  • The Daily Poll: Should Yahoo Accept Microsoft’s Offer?
  • Readers React to Microsoft’s Proposed Acquisition of Yahoo
  • Microsoft-Yahoo: Why The Hell Not?
  • Microsoft-Yahoo: The Timeline Of A Deal
  • Yahoo Offers an Extended “No Comment” Response to Microsoft Offer
  • Microsoft-Yahoo: The Complete Coverage
  • What Will Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like, In Pictures
• Techcrunch
  • WOW. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo
  • Ballmer’s Internal E-Mail to The Troops Explaining the Yahoo Acquisition
  • What Would a Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Look Like?

Tags: acquisition, Microsoft, Yahoo

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