The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal: A User's Guide

摘要

Don't panic, above all, remain calm. Or if you are already calm-in fact, I see a few of you dozing in the back row there-then wake up! An enormous convulsion is taking place in the Internet economy. Microsoft, the world's largest software company, wants to buy Yahoo!, which is (in its own words) "the world's largest global online network of integrated services," whatever that means, for $44.6 billion. Yahoo! is resisting. It's a complex, many-sided deal with repercussions in all directions. What does it mean for you? How will the world be different? Will your oxygen mask deploy in case of emergency? This guide will answer those questions and more. But the answers aren't simple, and they all depend on where you're sitting.