Google calls Microsoft's 'hostile' bid for Yahoo troubling

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Sun, 02/03/2008 - 2:25pm

A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, a Google executive says.

Microsoft's $44.6 billion "hostile" bid "raises troubling questions," writes David Drummond, Google Chief Legal Officer, expresses cynicism in a blog posted on Sunday

"Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same ...



 

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