"SOFTWARE GIANT MAKES A UNSOLICITED BID TO YAHOO!!!"

Yahoo started in 1995 by JERRY YANG & DAVID FILO, Ph.d students of Stanford University, is booming GLOBAL INTERNET SERVICES company.According to the latest survey yahoo has been the most visited websites of internet with more than 130 million unique users per month.Operating at Revenues of $6.7billions.Microsoft and Yahoo pursued merger discussions in 2005, 2006, and 2007, that were all ultimately unsuccessful. At the time, analysts were skeptical about the wisdom of a business combination. On 1 February 2008, after its friendly takeover offer was rebuffed by Yahoo, Microsoft made an unsolicited takeover bid to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion dollars in cash and stock.Proposed to be "The online advertising market is growing at a fast pace, from over $40 billion in 2007 to nearly $80 billion by 2010"

MICROSOFT PLAN:A combined Microsoft and Yahoo could pose a real challenge to Google overseas and in hot new ad markets such as mobile Internet.Microsoft said it had identified four areas that would generate at least USD 1 billion in annual synergies for the combined entity. Microsoft 'bear hug'(Considered as the biggest bid in tech sector) for Yahoo could create Google-beater.

Yahoo Inc employees fretted that their fun-loving culture could get quashed by the comparatively stodgy software behemoth.TERRY SEMEL steps down as yahoo chairman....
do u think microsoft should accquire yahoo???wats yahoo's reply for software giant's bid???will this change the fate of google???