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I think this deal makes sense. Why implement your search for your service when somebody else already does it really well?

Quoted: The deal certainly makes sense. Unlike rival Friendfeed, Twitter still lacks a search feature. And Twitter has relied on Summize in the recent past to help reduce load on the Twitter API. Summize is also one of (or the only) Twitter partner that has access to their XMPP stream.

There must be more to their business than searching Wikipedia.

Quoted: VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company.

Quoted: Microsoft trades at a healthy 4.55 times sales. So every $1 in the acquired company is theoretically worth $4.55. Pretty profitable business, these acquisitions, no? Unfortunately for the Redmond Boys, the GOOG can turn that $1 into $10.17. To over simplify things, they can afford to pay twice as much as Microsoft and still come out ahead.

Will Yahoo stockholders give up a 60% premium in stock price TODAY on the hope that Yahoo can run it's business better than Google and Microsoft?

Jerry Yang does not explain why the stumbles of the past will not be repeated in the future.

Quoted: Yahoo has just released the following letter to shareholders outlining its reasoning for rejecting Microsoft's offer to buy the company. In it, CEO ...

If you factor in Microsoft's market cap drop, Microsoft's bid for Yahoo will cost $80 billion.

Quoted: Microsoft closed at $32.60 per share on January 31, hours before the Yahoo bid was placed. On Friday, the stock closed at $28.56, a decline of about 13% and the lowest it has been since 2006. That erased just under $38 billion in Microsoft shareholder value.

Excellent analysis of the negotiation and valuation of the Yahoo acquisition.

A nice, although not comprehensive, recap.

Quoted: The list is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather to give a flavor for the deals that went down in 2007. The year started out with eBay’s acquisition of StubHub and rumors of its StumbleUpon deal

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Indian companies have been making record numbers of foreign acquisitions recently -- creating many multi-national Indian-headquartered companies in the process. This article focues on Tata's acquisition activity. Didn't know that Tata now owns Tetley Tea, formerly a British company.

Quoted: Now Tata - after buying two British industrial icons in steelmaker Corus and Tetley Tea - has emerged alongside rival Indian producer Mahindra & Mahindra and US buy-out group One Equity Partners on Ford Motor's shortlist to buy Jaguar and Land Rover, its UK luxury marques.