WAR! Microsoft Officially Declares WAR on Google! Microsoft Makes $44.6 Billion Dollar Bid For Yahoo! February 1, 2008
Posted by John Furrier in Technology.Tags: google, microsoft, takeover bid yahoo, war, yahoo
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As the president ial elec tions (can use those political keywords because of a Techmeme flaw) is down to two person races, the Internet battle has been waged. WAR! It’s official. It’s now a two company race: Google and Microsoft.
I’ve been seeing the battle of the titans coming for sometime, but this is the open gambit of a World War between Microsoft and Google. – the rest of the Internet world is whitespace.
I was writing up a review on the Google earnings while on a plane coming back from Flordia to Houston. Two words sum this up: holy shit.
More to come… I have to get on a plane to SJC from Houston. Unbelievable with impact to all. This is an A-bomb. It will affect big companies and startups. Wow.
this is going to be fun… You have been on this from the beginning…what’s your take John?
Can you imagine a bigger clash of cultures?
I have contacted a few mid level management people at Yahoo who could be described as, ‘Yahoo Purple Lifers”. They have intimated that they will stay and work to make any cultural changes to the organization, and I quote, “as painful as possible for the new Microsoft directors and division Veeps, short of insurrection”.
I’ll try and write something up on this attitude that seems pervasive, on my blog, over the weekend. There has been plenty of bitterness over the layoff’s already.
They are very different companies; although one could reason that this acquisition is the lawful and logical harvest of equity for Yahoo’s long term investors and employees with stock. But it takes more than a mere decision to make such a gargantuan move work.
They are Very Different cultures.
Alan,
The culture at Yahoo is over. There is no culture. It’s a sinking ship. They only have a few mavericks over there left. I’m sure the VCs will be grabbing them fast.
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