Is it just me or does the Microsoft/Yahoo merger stand to foster a lot of innovation on the Web by driving away many of the smartest people at Yahoo and perhaps even some of the smart people at Microsoft? How many startups will be created by former employees of those companies, and how many startups [...]
Will the Microsoft/Yahoo merger lead to innovation?
February 2nd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Tags: · innovation, Microsoft, Yahoo
Thoughts on Microsoft and Yahoo
February 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
My first impression of Microsoft’s $44 billion offer for Yahoo is that this is one of those big mergers that’s doomed to tedium, if not failure. It sort of reminds me of HP buying out Compaq. What was the end result other than some people getting a lot richer and a bunch of other people [...]
Tags: · business, mergers, Microsoft, Yahoo
Yahoo is an OpenID provider
January 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Yahoo has established itself as an OpenID provider. This really is the year of OpenID’s full emergence. If you’re not accepting OpenID logins for comments on your blog, you probably should be.