Darwinian tech world makes lagging Yahoo ripe for harvesting

After just 14 years in which it helped launch the Internet age, Yahoo has hit "middle age" and faces the fate of many other iconic Silicon Valley companies, becoming takeover bait. Full Story »

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Rory O'Connor
3.5
by Rory O'Connor - Oct. 1, 2008

Apparently it's a tech-eat-tech world out there in Silicon Valley, as this report on Yahoo perhaps being taken over by Microsoft details. No surprise to valley-dwellers, however: "The valley has long understood, if not embraced, the fast-moving tech world's Darwinian approach to business: eat or be eaten."

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Kaizar Campwala
3.4
by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

A valley-oriented analysis of a potential Microsoft/Yahoo merger. A little vague on Yahoo's trip-ups.

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Kevin Reilly
4.1
by Kevin Reilly - Oct. 1, 2008

Provides some perspective on the life cycle of tech behemoths from Silicon Valley. The money involved is amazing and the changes occur so rapidly.

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