Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion to Aquire Yahoo!
Well its all over the web, after all the rumors that have been going around for the past year, Microsoft went out and confirmed it today in this press release, this deal, if it does go through will be one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the internet, this estimates the Yahoo! share at $31, Microsoft offered a combination of cash and Microsoft stock to Yahoo!
Needless to say, this puts allot of pressure on Google, which may very well be the greatest threat to the search giant so far, Yahoo! and Microsoft combines will own 27% of the search market pie while Google owns 68.1%, still Google remains the biggest player in the search arena, but its definitely something Google needs to look out for.
The internet as we know it wont be the same if this deal goes through, of course it depends if they decide to keep their products separate or in some way join them, just imagine how would things change if Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Instant messenger combined, crazy yeah?
You can read more about this offer on Techcrunch in this post.
[tags]yahoo, Microsoft, Google[/tags]
