Let’s Play Piggy-in-the-middle
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Richard Edwards - Published 11/02/2008
Microsoft’s unsolicited (and somewhat generous) bid of US$44.6 billion last week for Yahoo! has stirred-up a hornet’s nest of protest from Google. The company’s senior lawyer and apparent spokesperson, David Drummond, is reported to have said that Microsoft’s “hostile bid” is an attack on “the underlying principles of the Internet”, and that the company would seek to block any deal between Microsoft and Yahoo! on antitrust grounds.
