Epic times; Yahooglezonsoft.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Charles Dickens pretty much summed up 2008 for the financial and tech industries without even knowing it! Now that’s talent.

One Internet company in particular that has felt the squeeze of 2008 is Yahoo! The past few months have been a roller coaster ride for Yahoo! if not an all out trip through a centrifuge – and the ride is certainly not over yet. To sum it up: Microsoft has been aggressively pursuing a hostile takeover of Yahoo! and it seems they’re just getting warmed up.

I am boggled and simultaneously fascinated by the latest events in this dramatic tug-of-war this week. It’s like in my 7th grade science class, really; we had a class snake, and every day, students would have the opportunity to feed the snake a small, white LIVE mouse and observe nature’s innate hierarchy in the food chain – or this case, 7th-grader-assisted hierarchy. So the snake would make its first move – daring, but not necessarily putting the mouse into a check mate situation. Once the mouse dodged the first potential attempt at its life, you could tell the snake was hungry – he wasn’t just darting after the mouse to flirt with it. When it’s lunchtime, snake’s gotta eat.

Now I’m not saying Microsoft is the snake and it can’t “help” itself from posing many threats to shaky antitrust laws and “consuming” everything in its wake…

====Tyler: tbc

~ by Tyler on April 14, 2008.