Saturday, February 2, 2008
Will Yahoo Get Another Offer?
Will a Yahoo white knight emerge? Financial blogger Henry Blodget thinks it is possible. Now that Microsoft's bid has put Yahoo into play, there's speculation that Yahoo will try to escape Microsoft's clutches by turning to a private equity firm. Observers recently have doubted that any public company would be able to justify buying Yahoo. Apparently the growing size of private equity deals now makes even a private buyout conceivable. Look for more Yahoo layoffs if that happens.
Yahoo still gets lots of traffic, but is not growing revenue as fast as Google, as this data from 2007 illustrates.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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