Microsoft in Talks To Acquire Ebay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday May 27, 2006 @12:38AM from the jigga-whaaaa dept.

thatedeguy writes "The NY Post is reporting that Microsoft and Ebay are in talks for the online auction house to join the Microsoft family." That said, the talks aren't going that well at the moment. From the article: " Sources indicate that the talks, while still active, have cooled somewhat in the last two weeks as executives considered antitrust issues. It is unclear what the full impact of yesterday's advertising and search alliance between Yahoo! and eBay will be for talks between MSN and eBay. One source close to the matter suggested the Yahoo-eBay tie-up would not stop Microsoft from pursuing the online auctioneer."

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Possible Merged Company Names by Androclese · 2006-05-27 01:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It might just be possible that Yahoo! could get purchased by Microsoft as well. If they do, it gives us a wide range of new name possibilities to think about:

M$'s eYahoo!

M$baYahoo!

eYahoo$oft!

Ca$h

...most of these look like unsecure passwords...
Re:mmmm monopolies... by MBraynard · 2006-05-27 17:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Fascinating but totally irrelevant. Did you just save that as your 'stock Ebay karma-whore' post?