Comments on: 19 Microsoft/Yahoo synergies that could revolutionize the Internet

By: 6 trends that could shake up the text analytics market | Text Technologies

6 trends that could shake up the text analytics market | Text Technologies — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:51:00 +0000

[...] 19 possible Microsoft/Yahoo synergies, many of them related to text technology convergence, e.g. between web search and enterprise search [...]

By: Elder Norm

Elder Norm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:44:54 +0000

Nate,
I totally agree. While I think that the article makes good points about what could happen, Microsoft and its current top management have ALWAYS stated that its about the money. MONEY FIRST!! How can we make money from this.?

Google has as their motto, “Do no evil.” Its a couple of guys that are having great fun and making billions doing it. Google earth, google maps with satellite, google apps, google e-mail all for free, up front,. The anti-Microsoft and from the way they make profit, it must work.

The only chance that I see is that Microsoft has a new batch of sub execs below Ballmer. If they can make things change, then maybe there will be a chance for Microsoft. Otherwise, I am not having happy thoughts about this merger.

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Yahoo wants to follow AOL into the dead pool

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:28:33 +0000

[...] is for the Microsoft acquisition to go through, and for Microsoft/Yahoo to unlock the deal’s huge potential synergies — which, while far from being certain, is at least realistically [...]

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Microsoft could EASILY pay $40/share for Yahoo, in cash

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:57:56 +0000

[...] is it? I see tons of synergies, but I’ll confess to not having quantified them. I’m also more optimistic about [...]

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » A game theorist’s view of Microsoft/Yahoo

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:54:06 +0000

[...] a quick Microsoft takeover of Yahoo. That’s what I thought all along, due to a whole lot of Microsoft/Yahoo synergies. Michael Arrington reports, in confirmation, that there are no viable alternative [...]

By: Curt Monash

Curt Monash — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:17:52 +0000

Well, I must confess that Computer Associates’ successful acquisitions had a lot of evisceration in them — but in a variety of product categories they DID actually move the state of the art far forward (mainly those in system management tools). Oracle’s apps acquisitions are looking decent right now. Oracle’s RDB acquisition was a huge success — bigger than Oracle now likes to admit.

Is that enough examples, or would you like me to keep going?

CAM

By: KiltBear

KiltBear — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:44:03 +0000

In a perfect world, maybe. What examples of big companies merging do you have where the whole actually becomes greater than the sum of the two as opposed to one eviscerating the other? An example where efficiencies are realized rather than a quagmire of mismatched systems and corporate cultures? How will Microsoft suddenly gain the deftness to manage the combined companies when its latest most critical product launch (Vista) has had the worst reception and greatest negative critique than anything that has come before?

This is nothing more than wishful thinking and pie-eyed enthusiasm. Tying the legs of two runners together does not make them faster. It slows them down and makes them clumsy.

By: Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Microsoft, Yahoo, and innovation

Text Technologies»Blog Archive » Microsoft, Yahoo, and innovation — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:27:04 +0000

[...] However, I think he and a lot of other observers are missing something this time — the Microsoft/Yahoo synergies are too large to [...]

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Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:04:20 +0000

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By: Jeff Staddon

Jeff Staddon — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:47:11 +0000

Good point Nate. I totally agree. I think this will be a big mistake for both Microsoft and Yahoo. I doubt Microsoft will allow Yahoo sufficent freedom to complete with Google. See my post at:

http://jeffspost.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/microsofts-yahoo-blunder/