Why Is Google Even Involved In The Yahoo! Acquisition Talks?

October 25, 2011

Why Is Google Even Involved In The Yahoo! Acquisition Talks? By Pat McCarthy There's been numerous news reports about Google considering "buying" Yahoo!, or at least teaming up with private equity companies to do so. While most of the articles at least mention in passing that it'd be unlikely for this to pass government review, I haven't seen many people actually discuss why Google is involved. Why wouldn't a Google acquisition of Yahoo! pass government review? Well, if the Department of Justice wouldn't pass the search deal that Google and Yahoo! worked up in 2008 where SOME of Yahoo!'s search results were powered by Google, then why would they actually let Google take part in buying all of Yahoo!? Continue Reading

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