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what i wanna know so badly is whether they use the game theory of other mathematical methods which calculate their success probabilities when they make acquisitions or marketing decisions. My hunch is that in google a lot of very smart mathematicians and strategists gather around a table when they make any decisions to discuss the probability of the success of their plan executions.
The single biggest obstacle to ratification of this deal is Congressional approval, as the combination of advertising services may be seen as a significant anti-trust violation. Short term, Yahoo! will also end up being vulnerable for perhaps a few additional quarters as speculators anticipating a buyout sell their options, but given the success of the Yahoo! board of directors in being able to thwart what was increasingly seen as a hostile takeover by Microsoft, it's likely that Yahoo's stock price should stabilize quickly, especially given that the online advertising market is expected to grow from US$40 billion in 2007 to US$75 billion by 2010.
Additionally, one particularly intriguing consequence of this as well is the announced integration of GoogleTalk and Yahoo! Instant Messenger services. Such an agreement already exists between Yahoo! and Microsoft, so at this stage its unclear whether that particular agreement still holds (perhaps leading to the unification of IM servers) or whether this will freeze out Microsoft from what's increasingly becoming a consolidated IM infrastructure centered around Yahoo!. Given that such IM integration also cuts across VOIP lines, it raises some interesting possibilities that Yahoo! and Google may also cooperate on the Android API.
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