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The twists and turns have not ceased and though they haven’t released yet but the reports are that Yahoo! has asked Microsoft to not to withdraw the bid and the acquire could be done at $35 per share, though now Microsoft is not that much interested and is bidding it’s time.

Microsoft is learning from the AOL bid fiasco, who later teamed up with the Microsoft’s real and formidable rival Google. Microsoft now wants Yahoo to fall in its lap like a ripe fruit which is about to go rotten.

Pundits in the business are predicting that Yahoo isn’t likely to get such a lucrative bid by Microsoft or anyone else in the future, and it would soon be pleading with the Microsoft from the back channels to acquire her at the less price.

To refuse the offer of Microsoft and to delay it was a bad move by Yahoo. This near-death experience will not change the fact that the company long ago lost their edge and best talent or suddenly turn it into a high-growth company in a way that would support a valuation equivalent to what MSFT was willing to pay. Desire does not magically confer ability.

When Yahoo! signaled Microsoft that it was ready for $38/share for the sellout, many thought that the deep pockets of Microsoft would jump at the chance and there would be no backing, but Microsoft had the fingers on the pulse of Yahoo, and knew the odds.

Microsoft did the needful by knowing that if it comes out cleanly this time, a new bid would enable them to purchase Yahoo at much lesser prices. Here is the press releases by the Microsoft bigwigs.

One of the most striking factor behind the staggering and forward-only success of World Wide Web is it’s originality of innovation. On the cutting edge of WWW horizon, only those succeed who render an innovative idea in action. As the time is progressing and more and more bleeding edge technologies are hopping on the forefront of WWW, competition is only getting fierce and more promising.

In 2008, if anybody, besides of some starry-eyed startups of the virtual tycoons, have succeeded in shocking the world with it’s dazzling innovation then it’s Docstoc. They have addressed a familiar “Oh why that wasn’t there before” kind of feature in a grand style while incorporating all the niche features of the web technologies.

Today, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced the ultimate dream of humanity, to colonize Mars. Termed as Project Virgle and starting in 2014, it will be the first permanent human colony on Mars.

Google has details here, including FAQ and Open Source Planet Initiative.

Interested candidates have to fill in a questionnaire. You need to be a martian-in-disguise to clear this form, unless the response will be:

When the news of Youtube blockage in Pakistan first came out, it was thought that the issue has occurred at PTCL’s end which blocked entire domain instead of just blocking a specific url. This opinion was based on the fact that Youtube was accessible through service providers using TWA backbone.

Popular video sharing website YouTube is blocked across Pakistan. The blockage has been found on service providers that are on PTCL backbone.

According to a source, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) directed all service providers to block a specific video on YouTube that contained blasphemous content. However, the intelligent service provider(s) blocked full access to the site.

On accessing that particular video, following error is reported:

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?

The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied.

We have got Global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments, and hey you are offering as peanuts like $44.6bn? Hey man are you crazy? You sure you are not buying some condo, and buying us, the Yahoo!?

Jerry Yang seemed quite hurt while telling the media that the buyout offer posed by Microsoft was too low, and he was really shocked to learn that Microsoft didn’t think of them that highly. Whereas Redmond wasn’t too happy about this rejection, as they and the other pundits of industry thought that the offer by Microsoft was too much high, and Yahoo even deserved less.

Microsoft isn’t doing anything illegal as far as the its acquisition of Yahoo is concerned, but the problem is that the people don’t really trust them. Microsoft’s track record and its extreme capitalistic approach compels people to become apprehensive and dubious about the whole affair and about the intentions of Microsoft.

Though Microsoft has been trying hard, over all these years to show more humane side of it, and Bill Gates disperse huge amount of bucks through his foundation, and other charity works, but things hardly goes in there favour in that regard, and they are still considered as cold-blooded corporate monster who are out there to monopolize everything and everyone. People become so much obsessed about this idea that they replaced the S in MicroSoft with $ sign.

Yahoo is famous for its openness, while Microsoft is famous for its not-so-openness. If all remains well for MSFT, and it acquires Yahoo with much ado, then would it change Yahoo, or would it adapt it to Yahoo’s much celebrated culture?

Microsoft has surely a long long way to go as far as openness is concerned. Microsoft never likes the slogan that Google and Linux are the future, yet it continues to shut the world’s door to the high walls of Richmond, and its Windows, Office, and other products remain a mystery, though not for the hackers and crackers.