Required Blog Post

I read on John Battelle's blog, that microsoft withdrew its offer of acquistion from Yahoo! I find this shocking because in order to compete with Google, Microsoft needs to step up in the fields of inerent search and other internet aspects. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the future, to see if Yahoo! was just interested in getting more money out of Microsoft, or will Microsoft be forced to look somewhere else to get a gateway to the internet.