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Are you kidding me??!!

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Alright, I'm probably close to the last person on the planet who should be commenting on corporate mergers, but... OK, I'm going to take that back; I'll have a MBA degree in a couple of months, so I'm probably better qualified than 99% of the planet...but still.. you could do much better. Anyway, the Murdoch-threated WSJ reports today that Redmond is considering bidding on Yahoo . I don't understand it and from what I know it seems extremely unlikely to me that it'll happen, but that's what I thought about Google buying DoubleClick , and we know how that turned out. As far as I can tel l, there isn't a logical reason from Microsoft and Yahoo to merge, except some vague generalizations about how this will better place them to compete with the Big G in the area of Internet advertising. These are not good reasons to merge, and even if you managed to convince yourself they were, I'm not sure how a merger better helps you to compete. The spin-off joi...