What’s all this about Google and Yahoo! and Microsoft?

Feb 4, 2008 Gelt, Stragety

I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo.Here’s what’s really going on:

Read it to find out what’s really going on, and to understand something about some very big pieces of the Internet business.

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