Ballmer: Yahoo Merger 'Dead'
As ExtremeTech reports, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday that while a Yahoo acquisition would have helped their bid to overtake Google in search, any current merger plans are dead.
“Yahoo for us was always a tactic, not a strategy,” Ballmer said during the company’s annual financial analyst meeting, according to the report. “There’s nothing under discussion between the two of us… It didn’t work out; we’re done.”
Microsoft views themselves as an underdog in the Internal portal war with Google—probably rightly so—even if it’s an odd position for a company as large as them to be in.
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