Challenging Google

Google offered to help Yahoo! fight off Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion takeover bid, and said the proposed deal raised "troubling" antitrust questions. Actually, the problem is that even with Yahoo! on its side Microsoft would be unable to co

What happened

Google on Sunday offered to help Yahoo! fend off a hostile, $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft, and said the deal would raise "troubling" antitrust questions because it could make Microsoft too powerful. Microsoft lawyers dismissed the concerns, saying that joining together Microsoft and Yahoo! would make the marketplace more competitive by creating a "more compelling No. 2 competitor for Internet search and online advertising," which Google dominates. (The Wall Street Journal)

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