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Microsoft's bid for Yahoo may have been dropped at a meeting in Washington state, but it was lost in Washington, D.C. Google's first word on the prospective deal, from top lawyer David Drummond, was of the cominbation's monopoly in email and instant messaging. That proved the last word, too. By making Yahoo fearful of regulatory scrutiny, Drummond and his lobbyists were able to put steel in Jerry Yang and David Filo's backbones to hold out for a higher price, and demand other conditions besides. The notion that Microsoft might pursue a Yahoo bid and have it nixed, leaving Yahoo incurably weakened, may give Yang and Filo some protection from inevitable shareholder lawsuits. But Google, by keeping Yahoo out of Microsoft's hands, is the real winner.
Microsoft-Yahoo failure is Google's first Washington win
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5:30 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Ballmer knew damn well that Google would fight him in Washington DC. Don't you think they've been hit with enough anti-trust crap?
No, Ballmer pulled out because Yahoo was too poison of a pill to swallow. It would have brought a LOT of pain to both companies trying to integrate.
You really get paid to make these posts?
Rehashing an article from 3 months ago acting like it was somehow confirmed?
How about the theories that MS would divest Hotmail, like they've done for properties such as Expedia in the past?
I sure hope Gawker isn't paying per post again.
They're payin per comment the article draws. GaryVee will tell ya it is the only metric of a post's worth!
I guess I'll make the obligatory quasi-racist Different Strokes comment.
@BobDope: That actually makes a lot of sense. I'll look out for that.
Is David Drummond possibly the best-looking Google executive? Imagine, hypothetically and non legal-actionably, that he were moonlighting as an exotic dancer. What would be his stripper name?
I vote for "Legal Thunder".
I vote for, "I don't think so!"
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