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 at 11:54 AM