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Google Rebuffs Microsoft Takeover Bid

Posted by timothy on from the money-to-be-made-somewhere dept.

Chris Gondek writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has posted that Internet search leader Google has rejected a takeover bid from Microsoft in favour of selling its shares directly to the public. According to The New York Times (Login Required), Google wishes to sell only about $US2 billion worth of shares to the public."

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  1. Everyone hates MSG... by cgranade · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OK, bad pun alert. If you hate puns, go away. Now. Run.

    In other news:
    A recent study finds yet one more reason to avoid cheap Chinese food. The study found that in addition to playing hell with the blood pressure of its victims, MSG may restrict people's choice of information, subject people's unprotected browsers to viruses, spam and popups, and kill the user's penguins.

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  2. Re:Google rebuffing M$ is only HALF the story.... by abolith · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    American chocolate is seriously inferior to european chocolate, and I only know this because i went to europe and brought back an entire frigging suitcase of chocolate from austria......Mmmmm Austrian chocolate.....

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  3. Re:US Gov should buy google. (not a troll) by Peyna · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See that key on your keyboard just left of 'Z' and just below 'Caps Lock'? Learn to use it, and your posts will be more readable and taken more seriously.

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  4. Re:US Gov should buy google. (not a troll) by Woodblock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It appears your shift key is broken. You might want to get that fixed.

  5. Re:Google rebuffing M$ is only HALF the story.... by Sj0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You did? Strage. I could have sworn the Yanks were busy fighting a war against the japanese at the time, and that the war was almost won before Perl harbour. Silly me.

    On the other hand, I think that both of us civilians(and I'm assuming you're a civilian here, seeing as I have no evidence to the contrary) talking about this is insensitive and stupid. If we went to war tomorrow against some new (credible, this time!) threat, it wouldn't be you or I, or George or Jean, or even Saddam doing the fighting, it would be the brave soldiers who are caught up in a blaze of international politics. In my eyes, they're the only ones who should be allowed to gloat about the acievements of their countries in war, and I'm not so certain they'd be willing.

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