News Response #1

With Yahoo deal's collapse, stymied Microsoft must find new online strategy

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By Benjamin J. Romano
Seattle Times technology reporter
Monday, May 5, 2008
-In this article the author - Romano talked about the Microsoft's difficult trip to buy yahoo. The reason is Microsoft want to be bigger to compete with Google. They took a long time to suggest Yahoo to merger their two companies. However, Yahoo has resisted to negotiate with Microsoft many times. Whereas Microsoft has already used all their strong method, they even offer a very high price of $44.6 billion. They have 3 plan to force Yahoo : plan A, B, C. They are now using plan B. If this plan isn't effective they will come back to plan B or go ahead to plan C. The Analysts think Microsoft can buy Yahoo. Just because Yahoo think the price is still very cheap and they want more extra time to find some ways to raise the price. However, two days ago Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft will give up buying Yahoo after 2 months tired of negotiating with Yahoo.

-My Opinion: I think this uncompleted commercial affair is also a pity thing for two of this huge company. Yahoo and Microsoft are also my favorite company, especially in Vietnam Yahoo is very popular. Vietnamese people all use Yahoo such as : messenger, email, blog...They just use Google to research. I'm not looking forward Yahoo and Microsoft will merge into 1 one day, I like the way they are now. Yahoo just pay more intention in their customer and upgrade something---> Perfect thing.

Some new words:

-pursuit (n): an effort to secure or attain; quest.
-undisputed (a): not argued with, generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute.
-strive (v) : To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
-strategy (n): a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result.