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Re:Autodesk criticised by architects by thinkloop on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:06AM (#24035917)
> Yahoo made offers to buy Google

I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them [1]

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/remember-yahoo-turned-down-1-...

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Re:Autodesk criticised by architects by jasode on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:13AM (#24035965)
>I think you have that backwards, Google kept asking Yahoo to buy them

The early 1998 $1 million offer was prompted by Larry Page and Yahoo rejected him. However, the 2002 offer of $3 billion was from Yahoo and Google rejected them. In 2002, Google was already starting to see profits so they were under no pressure to sell.

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Re:Autodesk criticised by architects by thinkloop on Monday August 03, 2020 @06:16AM (#24035984)
You're right:

"In 2002, Yahoo's CEO at the time, Terry Semel, engaged in negotiations to acquire Google, which lasted several months.

The outcome of the negotiation was Semel balking at Google's price tag of $5 billion."

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