There are several possible answers. It could be to address legal concerns- the government tends to get interested when large players in a small field start merging (or being bought)- MS is #3, Yahoo #2 in internet search engines. There may be enough stockholders in Yahoo that are averse to a MS takeover to keep that from being feasible, too. The bulk of Yahoo's business model might be too far outside of the planned scope of MS for the whole company to be attractive, and too hard to spin off/sell if they bought it.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Todd Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_and_yahoo_finalize_10year_search_agreement > > What the hell does Yahoo do now? And why doesn't Microsoft just buy them. > > --------------------------------------------- > Todd Elliott > [email protected] > http://www.theuniquegeek.com/ > http://www.google.com/profiles/thelliott > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
