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You’re Not Saving Money…Calm The @#*% Down
We discussed this briefly at this weekend’s Dot Com Pho after we heard the news of a Walmart employee getting trampled to death and shootings breaking out over the Black Friday sales a couple days ago. Seriously, we all agreed that this was pure idiocy…not only for the tragic events that occurred but the [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Offers To Purchase Yahoo
I thought someone was joking when I first heard this but then I saw it pop up on some legitimate news outlets.
Seriously? Wow, this might go down as one of the bigger deals of our time if Yahoo accepts the $44.6 billion dollar offer Microsoft put in to purchase the search engine giant, which has been reporting decreased profits for some time, probably due to the fierce competition with Google. Stock prices have fallen 46% since reaching $34.08 in October. Jerry Yang announced earlier this week plans to lay off 1,000 members of the Yahoo staff in order to restructure the company.
Apparently, according to BBC, this deal has been talked about for awhile now but nothing has seriously happened til now. It’ll be interesting to see how this affects…well, the rest of the freakin’ world.
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Apparently stocks in Yahoo! have been skyrocketing as a result of the potential Microsoft purchase.
ReplyI’d imagine so, but somehow I don’t think that Microsoft is going to be the knight in shining armor atop a white horse for Yahoo.
Replyoh ye have little faith . . .
ReplyIn other news, Google is taking a beating due to falling short on their advertising revenues so they are taking money out of their publishers pockets
ReplyHmm I wonder why Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo?
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