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Microsoft and News Corp in Yahoo Bid Talks

Posted by samzenpus on from the you-will-be-assimilated dept.

KingAlanI writes "The New York Times website is reporting that Microsoft is trying another angle in its bid for Yahoo: joining up with another behemoth, Murdoch's News Corporation. This is still very much in the preliminary stage, if anything, but an important development to consider. The idea of Yahoo working with fellow Web giant Google, in a plan to counteract Microsoft's takeover plan, is also discussed."

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  1. Brilliant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course! We need more EVIL! Get Murdoch on board....

  2. I would like to congratulate Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    For singlehandledly making AOL relevant again. I think my collection of AOL disks just increased in value.

  3. Could've been funnier by faloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    It could've said "Microsoft and Newscorp have banded together to make the proper sacrifices to Cthulhu to ensure their bid for Yahoo! is accepted." At least then the circle of evil would be complete.

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  4. Two great evils together at last. by killjoe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey you've got right wing zealotry in my monopoly.

    Hey you've got monopoly in my right right wing politics.

    Ah two great evils that taste better together.

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    evil is as evil does
  5. Microsoft + FOX + Yahoo! = by e03179 · · Score: 3, Funny

    MicroFOX!

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  6. Re:MSFT, Hotmail and Yahoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If 65% are men and 22% are women, what are the other 13%?

  7. Interesting argument from MS by peipas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft immediately blasted the idea of a search advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, saying it would be anticompetitive. "Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90 percent of the search advertising market in Google's hands," Microsoft said in a statement. *blinks*
  8. Re:MSFT, Hotmail and Yahoo by BrotherBeal · · Score: 2, Funny

    If 65% are men and 22% are women, what are the other 13%? Botnets.
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    I'm disabling ads until because I choose not to reward redesigns that are less usable than "view source".
  9. Foo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Two evil supervillains joining forces? Won't that pose a clash of egos? How are FOX and MSNBC going to feel about this?