Google v Microsoft+Yahoo!
Any concern about Google taking on a combined Microsoft and Yahoo! just isn’t making sense for me. People at Google are there because they like making Google apps. The same holds true for Microsoft and Yahoo! Force the two together, though, and you have a huge clash of cultures, not to mention technologies. After Microsoft slashes employees from Yahoo! in the interest of leveraging costs, do you think the talent worth keeping is going to toe the Microsoft line?
With Microsoft and Facebook, you don’t have the overlap in offerings that there is with Yahoo! The goal here is to absorb Yahoo’s value into Microsoft to create the anti-Google. If the talent doesn’t buy into that, though, where’s the value?
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