Yahoo! Another Possible Purchaser!

Last week, Microsoft shook the fragile framework of the world by announcing its proposed hostile takeover of Yahoo! corporation for a whopping $44.6 billion dollars. In my opinion, Yahoo!’s continued losses mean that they couldn’t afford to not look at this offer seriously. Alas, as most stories proceed, there emerge a few ironic twists and turns that even I would never have predicted.

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Microsoft’s still in it to win it, and could very possibly do so. With Yahoo! chairman Terry Semel resigning, it seems that the opposition to Microsoft’s takeover left with him. However, apparently, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang doesn’t seem too fond of Microsoft – but who will Yang turn to in such a time of disaster and Microsoft seemingly coming in to sweep Yahoo! from the outskirts of the web into the mainstream again?

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Why, Apple, of course! It’s rumoured that Yang has expressed openly admiration for Steve Jobs and the whole Apple crew – and its well-earned, of course. Apple already revolutionized the way we listen to music and now the way we handle mobile devices – perhaps the internet is the next step? However, Apple isn’t the only giant to intervene between the transaction of Microsoft and Yahoo!.

Enter Google – king of the search industry. I was surprised to see such a strong reaction from them, actually – they claimed that Microsoft and Yahoo! combining would lead to a monopoly, which I can sympathize with, but Google has been so successful already that I doubt even such a strong move would be capable of downing Google – now very reluctant to relinquish their view of the top. Understandable.

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I think the best move would be for Yahoo! to end up in the hands of Apple Corp. as they seem to have a knack for doing things right, and don’t have their own web portal yet – Google’s Google, and Microsoft’s got MSN and Live. I think that Apple + Yahoo! would = an interesting move, but we’ve yet to see the chess game play out.