Microsoft has announced today that they have made an offer to buy Yahoo. The long speculated acquisition now has a price tag on it, $44,6 billion, which is significantly more than the current market value of Yahoo. According to Microsoft the deal would improve the operational efficiency and increase value for advertisers, which would create a "more efficient" company.
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Quote:But this move is kinda like AOL buying netscpae or ICQ,its a seemingly empty maneuver that just expands them into thos fields more..
and look what has happened to netscape... aol doesnt even support it anymore.
Lets face it Netscape was dead/dieing before they got to it and the mozzla team brought us fire fox no to long after AOL got netscape so meh it all works out.
Also without innovation or care in its product Netscapes days were numbered and after the net bubble crash of the 90s they were never really the same.
I was a netscape fan BTW but once 7 or 8 hit I just switched to IE.
I hope yahoo does not sell out to Microsoft it will really be turned into a Microsoft product that would nered updates everyday and you would need download software eventually to make the search engine run on your PC. I would like to see yahoo keep going strong on their own.
Quote:But this move is kinda like AOL buying netscpae or ICQ,its a seemingly empty maneuver that just expands them into thos fields more..
and look what has happened to netscape... aol doesnt even support it anymore.
Lets face it Netscape was dead/dieing before they got to it and the mozzla team brought us fire fox no to long after AOL got netscape so meh it all works out.
Also without innovation or care in its product Netscapes days were numbered and after the net bubble crash of the 90s they were never really the same.
I was a netscape fan BTW but once 7 or 8 hit I just switched to IE.
Yea, I use to use that browser back in the day, called it "nutscrape", man that browser sucked.
