Submission + - Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion (bloomberg.com)
penguinbrat writes: Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is making the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google in a market that may almost double to $80 billion by 2010. Google's growth has outstripped the pace set by Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft in every quarter since Google's 2004 initial public offering as its search engine won more users.
