Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 13:00 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for USD 44.6bn in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional USD 300m this year trying to revive the company. It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft. Update: More here.
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I think that is what Mozilla is working toward, but they seem to be missing the "presonal" part of it. The new offline features and APIs being added blur the line of desktop app versus web app. It would be very clever to bend the idea so that you can keep the app your way, and choose how much of the data goes upstream.... the issue being the less is upstream, the less portable it is, unless the offline web also works on memory stix.