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Microsoft's CEO says all acquisition plans are kaput, and he reiterates his company remains open to a search partnership, though there are no active discussions about it.
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Developing new innovative services would. Mergers are loser's strategy.
Companies are not so simple as elementary particles - they are more complex, like cars.
Wrecking one into another will not result in a new innovative and faster vehicle.
- by Penguinisto November 19, 2008 12:08 PM PST
- Err, MSFT threw a big fat bucket of cold water on any possibility of any partnership with Yahoo when they demanded/bribed/whatever the gov't to nix Google/Yahoo.
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- by darkr November 20, 2008 8:26 AM PST
- UMMMMMm if you check your history right the government and the advertisers were against at google controling 90% of the search market as a result of a yahoo/google partnership
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(5 Comments)along with alot of senators
plus if you check the senator from google's home state was the only one that supported it dispite his colleges misgivings on a deal which would've given google a monoply on advertising pricing