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All the buzz lately in the tech world is about the bid that Microsoft put into to buy Yahoo!.  Some people are pretty anti-deal, but I think it could be one for the record books.  I always enjoy when the internet landscape totally transforms.  Google made it transform—hell, they’ve OWNED the internet for quite some time now.  I’m not saying, “give somone else a chance.”  I’m not saying that at all.  I’m saying bring it on…because free market competition is fun and it breeds crazy innovation.  I want to see what happens to the Internet landscape when the playing field tilts a bit.

On another note, here are two points of interest for your curious individuals.

1. I posted a comment late last night and linked back to this blog on a post on a related story on CNN, “Google: Will Microsoft monopolize the Internet?” because, one, the story is interesting to me, and, two, I was curious to see how much traffic it would generate.

   So far I have received 35 hits. I suspect the hits will go up throughout the day since people will most likely read this story while they’re at work.

2. I’ve been reading a couple books on the stock market lately.  And it just so happens that the announcement for Microsoft to buy Yahoo! happened the morning after I had an active E-Trade account.  So, I figured, what the heck, so I bought a few shares of Yahoo! the morning the announcement was made as my first test into the market.  When I say a “few”, I mean 3.  Heh, 3 shares isn’t much.  But it’s fun to have watched it grow a bit as the buzz spreads.  Curious to see what it closes at today.

   Ironically, I also own some MSFT stock, of which I’ve held onto since I was 16.  Just 11 shares, though.  I’m curious to see if there’s a significant rise in MSFT if the deal goes through. In case you didn’t know, Yahoo’s stock rose 9 points the day the buyout was announced.

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