Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion

Η είδηση “γεμίζει” το Hacker News: Η Microsoft θέλει να αγοράσει το Yahoo!

• Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion
• Microsoft offers $44.6B for Yahoo
• Microsoft’s Letter to Yahoo

Είναι ώρα να κάνω επανάλληψη στο “The Nature of the Firm“:

“[…] why, if by organizing one can eliminate certain costs and in fact reduce the cost of production, are there any market transactions at all? Why is not ah all production carried on by one big firm? “

Υ.Γ. Μη ξεχνάμε, billion = 10⁹ και όχι 10¹²

Update (2008/05/04): Microsoft withdraws its proposal.