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Archive for February 1st, 2008

Microsoft proposes to acquire Yahoo! – Woohoo!

Posted by eileenb on February 1, 2008

Yahoo!

Wow, that’s smart.  Microsoft are offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo!.  What great news.  Yahoo! pipes is just brilliant and their social networking and search offerings complement our existing search and social software proposal. 

The BBC has the info on the news page.  Unusual for us to have an announcement break like this in the middle of the UK day – normally announcements go live PST.

It will be interesting to see what happens to both stock prices when New York starts trading later today and also will be interesting to see all the commentary as the news rolls around the world…

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