Courtesy of Slashdot, (still can’t shake that nasty habit), news that Microsoft is attempting a joint bid with News Corp for Yahoo! was posted over on the New York times. So I thought NY Times was rego only, but the link on Slashdot seems to work, so mosey on over and check out the details.
I know this is just rumour mongering and speculation, but by the same token it’s also yet another re-enforcement of my impression that when working for a software company in Australia that has an American presence expect to be relegated to insignificance.
Over here in Australia, News is a direct competitor to ninemsn, but it’s highly unlikely that either Microsoft or News Corp really payed much attention to that dynamic and how it would apply to their operation in the Australian online market space. I guess for us it’s a case of the same old, “let’s just sit and wait for them to get around to figuring out what to do with us” scenario.
Well, Australia’s still the best country in the world to live in, so I’ll take the good with the bad on that one, and just sit it out over here and wait.
May 13th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I heard it got canned!