The talk doing the rounds this weeks all seems to be about the massive power struggle on the other side of the Atlantic – and not the one involving Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. No, all eyes are firmly turned to the attempted buyout of Yahoo by Microsoft.
The sums involved are staggering (Microsoft are offering $44.6 billion) – but what is more important is that the outcome is likely to have a highly significant effect on internet business in the short term and, in the long term, may even dictate where the future of the web lies.
