Yahoo of 2008 reminds me of AOL ten years ago…both were HUGE dominating and storied companies in the height of their glory…however something happened. For AOL, they seemed to neglect the writing on the wall (the onset and expansion of the World Wide Web and broadband internet access) and failed to diversify…a bit like the music industry. Fast forward to 2008 and you have a similar story with Yahoo. You could argue that Yahoo was one of the contributing factors to the demise of AOL ten years earlier. Today, with the rise of competition in the space and the dominance of Google, Yahoo finds themselves in need of a makeover—to some degree Microsoft also finds themselves in a similar position as they have continued to be outdone by Google. A merger between Microsoft and Yahoo could be just what the two companies need to take on Google, the company to beat in the early part of the 21st Century.
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This could be very interesting, but it could be much like the AOL/Time Warner deal and leave MS bloated. Google is kicking ass and taking names right now.
Steve Bloom
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