Here is what I am unsure of in the current GOOG blasting MSFT for attempting to acquire YHOO: if the triumvirate is so unhappy at the impending marriage, why don't investment bankers pitch a 'white knight' scenario to the M&A team at Mountain View? Wouldn't it be more productive and lucrative for the bankers to get rich off two silicon valley icons working to thwart the Evil Empire from invading the valley?
Is it possible that under such a scenario of GOOG taking over YHOO that Dr. Schmidt would ask Yang and Filo to 'walk the plank' for screwing up? I mean which is better - 'being tossed overboard by Redmond' or 'being thrown into a windowless room by Mountain View'?
The only winners in this game are the investment bankers and the outside legal teams. Shareholders can forget the thoughts of 'huge sums' of money falling from the sky. Bill & Steve should walk away from the table now - come back in 12 months and shave $10B off their tender price offer. As for the YHOO BoD, they should resign en masse and let another team take over the stewardship of YHOO before GOOG and MSFT feed off of YHOO's dead carcass
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