50 billion dollars- thats what ’Takeover pundits’ are puntering for Microsoft’s alleged bid for Yahoo.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05042007/business/bills_hard_drive_business_peter_lauria_and_zachery_kouwe.htm
Is it worth it? Prima Facie For Yahoo yes. Earning a few times of the entire online industry size should be worth it. For Microsoft? Maybe Yes- they haven’t done anything substantial or ground breaking anyways- either in display or search advertising. They just get by (ahem!) because they are Microsoft. They lost Double click, they lost AOL, now might be their chance for consolidation.
But whatever the ’money sense’ is, the reasons why it should never happen- why Yahoo should not sell to MS …

Or shall I say Internet might loose its sheen the way we see it now.
The Net evolves – HTML, Java, DHTML, AJAX, Ruby on Rails- web authoring technologies continue to evolve. And so does the nature of the web- from standard, static web pages of the web 1.0 era to community driven, interactive and self updating Web 2.0. Mobile technologies have not been far behind- and terms like 3G, wifi, Bluetooth connectivity etc form staple primary school lingo today.
Fortunately or otherwise, all these technologies are evolving and new ones emerging because …