so what else do they get?

has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets….In a statement Friday, Yahoo said it will “carefully and promptly” study Microsoft’s bid.

I suppose this would make Flickr (or what’s left of it) an MSFT subsidiary.

Michael Liedtke, AP:

Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets. […]

In a statement Friday, Yahoo said it will “carefully and promptly” study Microsoft’s bid.

My guess: Sold.

★ [From Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion for Yahoo]

I don’t think I’m all that comfortable with that outcome.

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