Posts Tagged ‘geocities’

Last night I was on System Showdown talking about tech. They asked my thoughts on the Microsoft/Yahoo merger. I basically shot from the hip and said that Yahoo should stop “Dropping Landmines” and focus on not being bought out by restructuring.

 It got me to thinking again on what Yahoo could change. I remembered that some time ago, I talked about what Yahoo could do to turn things around. One of the things I mentioned was if Yahoo Geocities became more of a Social Networking Hybrid.

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Today Microsoft laid an “Unsolicited” offer of 44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo. According to Steve Ballmer, they can offer Microsoft customers better solutions with the acquisition while also becoming “better positioned” in the online services market. But are we ready for a big takeover like that?

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