Microsoft To Fight Dirty with Yahoo
Hi, reader, what's happening? Like
Lumbergh
from Office Space
, we're playing a little catch-up today, not because
we've "lost some people" but because we took the very un-Lumbergh
step of not working over the long weekend. As a result, we're writing Tuesday's
newsletter on Tuesday and not the day before. So, it'll be short and sweet today.
Convinced that his company -- hey, isn't this guy about to retire? -- offered
a fair price for Yahoo, Bill Gates and his charges at Microsoft are launching
a fight to gain control of Yahoo's board and grab hold of the company one
way or the other.
Yahoo's Chinese partner, meanwhile, might try to
block
the takeover
, which could, apparently, force Microsoft to hand over more
money.
Ancient
Chinese secret
, huh? Well, maybe not. But, thanks to Wikipedia for giving
us Calgon jingles in about
15
languages
. How do we love thee, Internet? We couldn't possibly count the
ways.
Posted by Lee Pender on February 19, 2008