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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. Re:It's questionable by netbornmusic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remains to be seen how real the takeover offer was in the first place. Microsoft has thousands of employees and 50 bil in the bank, which pretty much allows them to develop any search technology they want and hire the best people in the industry. Seems that's not enough for them, since they still can't build good OS...

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  2. Re:Evil by Davak · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't completely believe that Microsoft is evil. Microsoft helps my parents get online, have email, print pictures, and surf the web. There's no other easy software package out there expect that produced by microsoft that allows them to do it.

    While I appreciate their products, it's hard to argue that they are not borg-like in their actions.