2008 The Year of the Acquisition: Microsoft Bids on Yahoo!, Amazon buys Audible
By Mark on Feb 1, 2008 in LinuxToday, LinuxWorld, Open Source
Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed.
- I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed. It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race with Microsoft putting the moves on Yahoo! for about $44.6 billion (Notes from SearchEngineLand). I guess it’s really on now, Google versus Microsoft in a search engine death match.
- Yahoo! acquired Zimbra last year. I wonder what that means for the "Exchange killer"?
- Amazon is acquiring Audible.com the leading provider of digital spoken word content establishing itself even further as the web’s biggest superstore.
- There were already three open source transactions in January:
- In preparation Andrew Aiken and the boys from the Olliance Group are ready to help along the deals with their newly formed M&A practice.
The question now is,"Who’s next and how much?"
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Sheeri Cabral | Feb 6, 2008 | Reply
Interesting that you say “search engine death match” — I see it as “office productivity suite death match.”