$6 Billion for aQuantive – a company I’ve never heard of with $442M in revenue. Umm… ok. Seems high.
$500M for Danger, a competitor for Windows Mobile written in Java. $56M in revenue last year and has never turned a profit. Uh, who is doing MS’ accounting?
$44.6 Billion for Yahoo! This isn’t a crazy valuation for Yahoo! however, I just found out that MS was going to have to borrow money for the first time in its history to purchase this fading internet darling. Yahoo! hates the idea so much that it is looking to be purchased by AOL or selling off it’s search to Google in order to stave off Microsoft. Way to read the valley culture morons.
Who is the genius behind Microsoft’s acquisition strategy and how the hell are they still employed?Â