Yahoo and Microsoft Overlap
Do you really have any idea how big Yahoo is, or hell, how big MSN is? There’s a lot of overlap between…
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Do you really have any idea how big Yahoo is, or hell, how big MSN is? There’s a lot of overlap between…
Noted Internet law expert Michael Geist criticized an opinion piece appearing in a Canadian newspaper as "astonishingly misleading and factually incorrect."
If history is taken into account then Microsoft has been known to have a huge reservoir of funds which prevent it from loaning for any deal, but this time it appears that the bid of US $44.6 Billion has forced it to consider such an option. This was made known by the company's CFO Chris Liddell in a briefing to Wall Street analysts.
Over the weekend Google tried to thwart the attempt by Microsoft to takeover Yahoo!, by being quite vocal about the concerns, see Official Google Response: Microsoft's Bid On Yahoo! "Hostile".
After hours trading added insult to injury, as shares of GOOG continued to decline after the market closed today.
So, Merriam-Webster broke down and let "w00t" into its dictionary. Yeah, well, they're trying to stay relevant. That doesn't mean anybody should ever use this word outside of World of Warcraft or, at the most, instant messaging. How long do you think it will be before w00t is as silly as gnarly, tubular, radical waves (can you see the zinc-oxide on my nose, dude?) or…