Jerry Yang is lucky AOL CEO Randy Falco isn’t a Yahoo board member, because he’s a staunch advocate of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. Why? Because it will keep Google busy long enough for AOL to make its big move–whatever that is. “I hope they beat each other’s brains out over search and leave the display market to us,” Falco said in remarks at the Interactive Advertising Bureau annual conference. “I think it’s a mistake. But I think Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when they’re in the middle of making a mistake.”
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Jerry Yang is lucky AOL CEO Randy Falco isn’t a Yahoo board member, because he’s a staunch advocate of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. Why? Because it will keep Google busy long enough for AOL to make its big move–whatever that is. “I hope they beat each other’s brains out over search and leave the display market to us,” Falco said in remarks at the Interactive Advertising Bureau annual conference. “I think it’s a mistake. But I think Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when they’re in the middle of making a mistake.”
