Will Microsoft + Yahoo mean MicrosoftYahoo!Xtra Bubble for Kiwis?

I’m not sure what to make of “Microsoft Yahoo!” which led the business news when I woke up this morning. Wasn’t it last year that Steve Ballmer said Microsoft were going to be doing small acquisitions for the next five years. Still $44.6 billion isn’t that much I suppose!

It’s kinda funny that months after Xtra, my ISP, switched it’s partner allegiance from MSN to Yahoo! they may be merging back together. I hope the proposed merger goes better than the XtraMSN to Yahoo!Xtra transition which was far from seamless for many of its 1/2 million subscribers.

Perhaps the real problem for both Microsoft and Yahoo is having heard the radio news, like many I suspect, I used Google Search, News, Blog Search to find out more about it!

Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo - Feb. 1, 2008
“Software giant offers $31 a share - a 62% premium - in deal that could reorder online ad market. Microsoft's Ballmer: 'Major milestone.”

Microsoft makes bid for Yahoo | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“Microsoft said Friday that it is making an unsolicited offer of $31 a share, or $44.6 billion, to buy Yahoo in a move that would give the software giant more market share and become a significant threat to Google”
“Microsoft sent the following letter to Yahoo. Realistically it’s hard to see how Yahoo could say no”

Running the Numbers on a Possible Yahoo/Microsoft Merger | Epicenter from Wired.com
With Microsoft's surprise $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo this morning, we thought we'd look at some hard numbers to get a better sense of what the potential merger would mean for both companies...and the rest of the tech sector.

“Value of each Yahoo visitor based on Microsoft's $44.6B offer: $1,200/visitor“*

Does that mean this blog with approx 700 subscribers is worth us$840,000?

Tags:  Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, Xtra