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The tension must have been unbearable last week for Yahoo shareholders. Just
imagine the scene. “Hmm, this Microsoft offer is interesting but should we take
it? After all, we were one of the pioneers of the internet. We have a popular
email system, the best photo album, a much-read finance site. You have to
understand that this web phenomenon is only just touching the fibrous crust of
what is possible. We are like infants that do not realise the almost infinite
return of being a leading property holder on the internet… Hold up. How much did
you say Microsoft is offering? Sell, you idiots! Sell this piece-of-crap stock
right now.”
Bad Week
Online auctioneers could be going, going (complete world’s most predictable
opening ever yourself) if a new website is successful. Called TypoBuddy.com, and
coming from the same stable that brought you discount code site DealLocker.com,
the site discovers auction listings that have been misspelled and therefore do
not appear on normal search listings. In theory, that means savings for bargain
hunters. It could also be used by unscrupulous sellers to make an item out to be
more valuable than it really is, of course.
Word of the Week
Sabotage. At first it seemed that there might be a plausible excuse for the
recent telecoms disruptions. But if the loss of one submarine cable could appear
careless, the third and fourth did not do very much for the idea that there was
an innocent reason for the problems. Could it be a lost ship, a stray anchor, or
an evil plot to destabilise the internet? As with Lord Lucan, JFK and Shergar,
we will probably never know.
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