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Eric Lai
Three companies Microsoft could buy instead of Yahoo
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 5, 2008 - 7:51pmAssuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we have is a software vendor suddenly awash in tens of billions of unspent dollars that it can now lavish on other Internet firms.
