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You might have read in my earlier blog post about Microsoft bidding $44.6 billion for Yahoo but the story is far from over. With internet analysts and experts predicting a few days back that it was a done deal Yahoo has managed to prove them wrong. The analysts predicted that it would be difficult if not impossible for Jerry Yang, the Yahoo CEO to convince Yahoo shareholders against the deal; but believe it or not Jerry Yang has actually managed to convince share holders otherwise and the other day rejected the deal from Microsoft stating that the deal “undevalued” Yahoo.

Many people say that this is yahoo’s trick to increase the price for the company while some day that this might not be the best business decision  and instead is a decision based on the anti-microsoft sentiment. Whatever, be the reason the deal is off as of now but microsoft has said that it will continue its efforts to acquire Yahoo and also has said that it was “unfortunate” that Yahoo has rejected the bid.

Anyways, lets see where this takes us and lets hope all is best for technology and the internet.

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I know its kind of stupid to post about this but it is kind of weird on Google’s part as well. The advertising link on the homepage of Google which was there till yesterday night was gone today morning. I woke up today and booted my computer and the advertising link is gone. The advertising link on Google homepage had links to the Google Adwords and the Google Adsense programs. And not only on the Google.com homepage but also on the country specific homepages.(read: Google.co.in).

Here is a snap shot of both the homepages of both Google.com as well as Google.co.in

Moreover, these links were taken out in so much hurry that the hyphens between the links are also not taken out. Lets hope that this is just a small inconsistency at Google’s end and not a hack attempt or an attempt to breach security!!

So, just hoping that all is fine at Google and Google fixes it soon!

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I was shell shocked when the news came in on CNN that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion and i was like thats nothing new especially when it  comes to internet companies.  Its been ever since competition buying out competition but this is special because this is the BIG DEAL.

If this deal goes through then i wonder what will happen to Yahoo! open source commitment and that has really got me worried because I am right now working on a major project that makes use of the Yahoo user interface library which thankfully is open source as well as we are planning to use several of Yahoo!’s API.

So, hopefully even if this deal goes through i dont think yahoo should compromise on its principles as well as its commitment to open source software.

So, here is me,  hoping the best for both the companies as well as more importantly to technology!

Cheers!

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