How Does The Microsoft-Yahoo! Merger Appears To Be?

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Since, Yahoo!'s shares have shown a downward trend over the year, and about a year back it traded at $31. This has perhaps made possible a bid of $31 a share for Microsoft, observes Erick Schonfeld

How Does The Microsoft-Yahoo! Merger Appears To Be?

An rough analysis of Microsoft-Yahoo combination compared to Google looks like this on the financial front.

Microsoft thinks that it can slash about $1 billion out of operating expenses if the merger is materialized. As far as advertising revenues and online services are concerned, Yahoo! can very well turn out to be promising acquisition. Since, Google already commands a 75% share of paid-search advertising market, hence it cannot bid on Yahoo! owing to antitrust laws.

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Ronald Redito Says:
August 2nd, 2009 at 07:23
Google is no doubt the number 1 search engine in the world today. Because of this Yahoo and MSN have tried their best to beat the Big G for several years. And now, their solution is merger. There will be a big impact but I guess they will need more efforts because I think their combined market share is still less than Google's.