Yahoo May Consider Alliance With Google
February 4th, 2008I think I would personally welcome the following scenario over the proposed 44.6 billion dollar takeover bid by Microsoft:
Yahoo May Consider Google Alliance: source
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) would consider a business alliance with Google Inc (GOOG.O) as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo’s strategy said on Sunday.
Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago on an alliance as an alternative to Microsoft’s bid, that source said. At $31 a share, Yahoo believes the bid undervalues the company, two sources said.
A second source close to Yahoo said it had received a procession of preliminary contacts by media, technology, telephone and financial companies. But the source said they were unaware whether any alternative bid was in the offing.
I think this is the main thing I would be concerned about over a possible Yahoo-Microsoft merger.
“Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’ email, IM, and Web-based services?” Drummond said in a blog at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/.
Google has an estimated 75% market share of the “worldwide Web search revenue”. And its dominance is likely to continue growing.
