Yeah - I know, big newsflash with that title, eh?
Some days it is just about ridiculous, though. Today is one of those days. The latest Twitter update from Robert Scoble, stirs the pot about a possible acquisition rumor about Microsoft wanting to acquire … Mahalo??!?
Scobleizer @jasoncalacanis is Mahalo selling out to Microsoft? Rumors are happening […]
The news around the web is that News Corp and Yahoo! apparently have been in some sort of talks about an acquisition. Might happen, might not. But the one thing that does seem to be known is the pricetag of $12 billion.
Ok, first off - kudos to Robert Murdoch if he can pull that off. He’ll have made the stock market equivalent of a real-estate flip, and profited handsomely from the process. But am I the only one, or does this seem like such an insanely large acqusition price, that it could be risky for Yahoo! as a whole?
Richard MacManus over at Read/Write Web talks about why large enterprises aren’t jumping on board with Web2.0 applications just yet. Richard’s article specifically discusses a Forrester Research article entitled “‘CIOs Want Suites For Web 2.0″ and discusses Forrester’s findings rather well. According to Richard’s post …
“Apparently CIOs have a strong desire to purchase web 2.0 products ‘as a suite, as well as an equally strong desire to purchase these technologies from large, incumbent software vendors.’”
Working for a large enterprise myself, I have to say - this really doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me.