Microsoft Combined with Yahoo, a recipe for......

Thank goodness it was friday, was in the process of switching of my pc, its been a busy week work hard as ever on web projects, but thought let me quickly take a quick glance at the bbc news website technology section, Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo was the headline. I checked the calendar and realise it was no where near April 1st, hence it was not a fools day joke.

$44 billion is not a small price to pay in order to have a bigger share of the $80 billion online search market, which Google currently leads the way. I dont really know how Microsoft would dissolve Yahoo into its already big company, but am sure it MIGHT work.

They are still in the proposal stage, but Google has already wants regulators to scrutinise the proposed buy out.

Damn... I might now need to combine my Hotmail with Yahoo Mail, but lets wait and see

ASDA New Website

It was a long journey back home from visiting my sister yesterday, hence decided to pop into WHSmith and pick up my favourite web design Magazine, but for some strange reason could not find the .NET Magazine on the stand. The Marketing magazine caught my eyes and the headline that struck me was the new proposed Asda website Walmart (owner of Asda) have got in mind.

Apparently the top UK digital shops inline for the project is Avenue A | Razorfish, whose client according to their website includes: Oxfam, Pringles, Capital One, Bosch Tools, Garnier, New York Times, just to mention a few.

According to the article, visit to the ecommerce portal rose by 85% in the year 2007 to just under 3m in December according to the Nielsen/NetRatings. The 3m visit to the Asda website is still way short of the 6.9m unique visit to Tesco.com - UK biggest retailer with more than 30% share of the retail market.

I would be keeping an eye on the progress to see how it all shapes up.