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Gates Explains Microsoft's Need for Yahoo
eldavojohn writes "Perhaps it's obvious to you and perhaps you'll be pleasantly surprised by his answer but Gates revealed to CNet why Microsoft needs Yahoo. From his response, "We have a strategy for competing in the search space that Google dominates today, that we'll pursue that we had before we made the Yahoo offer, and that we can pursue without that. It involves breakthrough engineering. We think that the combination with Yahoo would accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work. So, if you combine their work and our work, the speed at which you can innovate and get things done is just dramatically more rapid. So, it's really about the people there that want to join in and create a better search, better portal for a very broad set of customers. That's the vision that's behind saying, hey, wouldn't this be a great combination.""
"Look, we innovate. We innovate the hell out of stuff. Just yesterday I innovated a donut by taking one off some old guy when I pushed him down a flight of stairs. And Yahoo!, well, we're innovating them right now, and we're going to keep innovating them until they stop moving. Then we'll use their bloated corpse to innovate any Google employee that gets in our way."
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from the Cmdr-Taco-needs-a-grammar-checker dept.
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And here I thought it was because Yahoo's pages are as fugly and user-hostile as Microsoft's. Shows how dumb I am.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
First, Take a look at http://www.eep.com/merchant/newsite/samples/ee/ee0801.htm, for "Why Most Mergers Fail".
Next, take a look at press releases involving mergers in financial and industrial companies.
Note, how there is highest emphasis on cost savings, and very little mention of ideals and NEW business strategy after the merger.
Lastly, the kind of "merger" you are suggesting is typically done as a buyout of a small company by a much larger company.
See! This is what happens if you drop out of Business School.
For just a 0.1% Fee based on the deal value, I can help provide further advice.
Good Luck!
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This merger comes from the great minds who brought us Reese's Chocolate and Garlic Butter Cups.
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No, they don't just want the marketshare. They want to synergize the paradigm!
And combined accelerate double the speed rapid faster.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
I hope its SI, its a lot easier talking about kiloshitloads and centeshitloads as opposed to trying to covert imperial shitloads to shittons and shitgallons.
yep, he's responsible for putting back the chairs
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Microsoft needs more programmers
DEVELOPERS!
it is, for the uninformed AC
you mean like how infinity + infinity = infinity? so then a shitload would be the finite version of infinity? I think I just gave myself a headache ...