Was OnePlace's release meant to raise the price of Yahoo.

OnePlace's release correlated with the sale of Yahoo.

[eric8476]

The OnePlace application took three years to make and Yahoo really wants to make some money from advertising but was it really released to help spice up the deal from Microsoft?

Yahoo has been stalling for time to increase its market value, especially with the board nomination delays which delayed the date of a possible proxy battle and has stalled to look for other alternatives like deals with AOL and News Corp. Is all of this just to send the market value of Yahoo up so that Microsoft will increase its bid or is Yahoo really trying to avoid a takeover by Microsoft? Not to mention the potential confrontation between Microsoft and Google as this seems to be the last big piece that Microsoft needs as it loads up to take on Google. What do you think?

[edited by: martinibuster at 11:05 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2008]
[edit reason] See TOS. [/edit]

[Marcia]

>>seems to be the last big piece that Microsoft needs as it loads up to take on Google. What do you think?

I think it wouldn't make a dent in Google's market share or bottom line, no matter who acquired what or for how much.

[eric8476]

I agree with you that it would not immediately effect Google's presence online but it does give Microsoft an immediate and bigger presence in the search engine market, where the future of making money online will probably derive from. Is this going to be the start of any close competition with Google?