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Scary words from Drudge: "MICROSOFT EYES GOOGLE TAKEOVER... "

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee
no story yet, though.

how bad would that be?
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I find it doubtful. Google is supposedly going to have an IPO early next year which is supposed to net $15billion.
 
Somehow I don't think the justice dept., states, and EU are all sleeping deeply enough to miss that big of an extension to the MS monopoly.

It would be interesting though when searches on terms like "penguin" and "panther" started returning 0 hits.
 
Regardless of whether google goes IPO, or gets bought out buy another company, the outcome is the same. Google won't have the same independence it has now, and most likely its creaters won't have has much control over the company as they do now. If google goes IPO, they'll have the shareholders and board members to report too. If it gets bought out by Microsoft, well you know what happens. I actually think being bought out by Microsoft is probably the better route. Microsoft has massive amount of resources and probably will give Google a blank check on whatever it needs. Google will also be more independent and shielded from investors as a part of Microsoft than a publically traded company.
 
Originally posted by: Heifetz
Regardless of whether google goes IPO, or gets bought out buy another company, the outcome is the same. Google won't have the same independence it has now, and most likely its creaters won't have has much control over the company as they do now. If google goes IPO, they'll have the shareholders and board members to report too. If it gets bought out by Microsoft, well you know what happens. I actually think being bought out by Microsoft is probably the better route. Microsoft has massive amount of resources and probably will give Google a blank check on whatever it needs. Google will also be more independent and shielded from investors as a part of Microsoft than a publically traded company.
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Blank check + 3 words: CORPORATE RED TAPE.

 
Word on the street is that M$ offered them $8B. I have friends at a few big internet companies 1 degree of separation from this whole thing, they seem to think it's very real.

Old news, though, I bet their talks already broke down. 🙂
 
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