Microsoft lashes back at Google
Nu-uhhh.
That's a one word summary of Microsoft's statement Sunday rebutting Google's statement earlier in the day that said Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo could raise antitrust concerns.
"The combination of Microsoft and Yahoo will create a more competitive marketplace by establishing a compelling number two competitor for Internet search and online advertising," Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith said in a statement. "The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet."
Smith argues that Google already has three-quarters of the paid search market and about two-thirds of U.S. search queries and 85 percent in Europe.
Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that Yahoo is considering some type of tie-up with Google, potentially something smaller than an all-out acquisition. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt phoned Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang on Friday to discuss how to avoid a Microsoft takeover, either by offering money or guaranteed revenue in exchange for Yahoo outsourcing its advertising to Google, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. A Google spokesman said the company had no comment on the report, and Yahoo representatives could not be reached for comment.
During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina.
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But Microsoft+Yahoo! will be the clear winner in the email+IM
arena.
So, all reduces to "know" (decipher) which one is the "future of
ad revenues"!
If Yahoo is smart, they'll play coy, and when MSFT movews in for the kill, drop in a poison pill just to watch Ballmer turn red >:)
/P
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/04/03/microsoft_ruling/index.html
So lets stop denying they are a Monopoly and focus on why its a bad merger.
Google in the highest degree isn't worried about the merger between these two companies. But it is worried about the monopoly Microsoft already has in computer operating systems and the browser market. And rightfully so, Microsoft is a company that runs 90% of the world's computer. They also dominate the browser space at 75% of the world market. Couple this with the fact they plan on creating web development tools for the internet as a whole surely that can pose somewhat of a serious threat. No? Surely this will be a cause for concern to Google, if not Adobe. Right? With a company that dominates almost every category in software for the PC. The question we have to answer here is ? why wouldn't they use this to their advantage? Certainly there are some serious consequential issues here for the law books, as laws are still being written for this kind of violation.
But on their own, Yahoo & Microsoft already provide a competitive atmosphere to Google as separate companies. Why change this? Microsoft just doesn't own as much as they'd like, paralleled to that of a spoiled child. There really is no need for them to merge if only for greedy purposes ? that could likely prove damaging to the market. I for one have no trouble sleeping at night that I don't see a Microsoft search bar or service dominating my every internet move. Its best left to those who've pioneered this technology and not to those who've just bought it.
how could they when Google already owns most of the internet
searching and advertising??
So instead, Google wants to make it's own moves to all but take
over Yahoo, thereby guaranteeing a monopoly!!
Either way, I think I'm going to buy some Yahoo stock tomorrow!
more choice is always a good thing. And with Microsoft
aggressively wanting to take over Yahoo smells like trouble if
you ask me. You cannot let Microsoft illegally take over the
Internet like they did the PC desktop with their anticompetitive
strategies.
Google is number one because they got there fair and square,
Microsoft on the other hand...
http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/
For those of us who live in the US, which part of capitalistic society don't you understand? How could any American seriously have a problem with MS wanting more, more, more? Who can name one business that doesn't want the same thing? Who can name ONE person who doesn't want MORE? Even so-called charities, such as Good Will, want more, more, more!
It is always going to be the consumer that loses out in the corporate world, because, no matter what they say, money will always come first! If I owned stock in a company, I would want that company to make as much money as it can, because, as a result, I would get more money.
Some people don't seem to realize that these companies are run by more than just one person. These companies are handled by people who want MORE money! I don't see how hard this is to figure out.
45 billion dollars is nothing to sneeze at and if anyone says they wouldn't take it, consider it, etc, that person is just a liar or a person who is allergic to money. Most people can't even imagine what that much money looks like.
Someone mentioned Adobe, but didn't they take over Macromedia? Didn't they get rid of the Macromedia brand and make it their own?
Heck, maybe I like the word Macromedia better than Adobe. Why couldn't they leave the name alone? Because, it is not about what we want. It is about what these companies pretty much force on us, but that is my opinion.
I have never felt bullied by any company to use their product. There are always alternatives. People will always choose what is "easy", especially in America.
Companies will always want more money and more control and more everything. Big Whoop! Tell us something we don't know.
Just remember that these companies are controlled by PEOPLE who are greedy and only see green. If you vilify one company, vilify them ALL, because ALL of them want the same thing, Google included.
By the way, this is my opinion so there is no need to turn on the flame throwers. If you disagree that business is about anything other than money, let me know. :-)