Comments on: Microsoft & Yahoo Said To Be Talking Merger, Cooperation

By: gary price

gary price — Sat, 05 May 2007 20:58:13 +0000

Well, it appears that once again talk about a Microsoft / Yahoo hook-up are over. Reuters, "citing people familiar with the situation," reports that talks between MSFT and YHOO are, "no longer active."

By: gary price

gary price — Fri, 04 May 2007 21:27:53 +0000

Danny: What a busy week for "possible" acquisitions. A couple of comments. Microsoft and Yahoo already have a "small deal" in place with the recent linking/interoperability between their IM services. At the very end of 2006, Merrill Lynch was saying that a possible hook-up between Yahoo and AOL was a possibility in 2007. You posted on Tuesday about an unsolicited bid for Dow Jones by News Corp. Today, we read of information powerhouse Thomson "talking" about a deal for Reuters. We've known for several months that Thomson is shopping their Learning division that includes database/info subsidiary, Thomson Gale.

By: ciaran

ciaran — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:55:25 +0000

I know that this sounds ridiculous, but I can actually see more benefit in a Google/Yahoo! match up than with MSN – Yahoo! strikes me as having the best of the social networks, whilst Google has stomped all over search….