{"id":2042,"date":"2008-02-09T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/hitting-on-the-ugly-girl\/"},"modified":"2008-02-09T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T21:29:55","slug":"hitting-on-the-ugly-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/09\/hitting-on-the-ugly-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"hitting on the ugly girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It really must suck to be Microsoft these days. Their attempt to buy Yahoo for more money that they actually have was a desperate move to begin with. And now they even got rejected. Who know that Yahoo! of all companies had choices. In this whole M$ bid media frenzy everybody seem to have forgotten about the layoff story that Yahoo had coming out. Yahoo is ailing. But they seem to have decided that they rather disolve like AOL or Netscape than to be part of would have been the worst merger in the history of Internet companies. Hitting on the ugly girl, since you think you have a chance is bad enough. Getting rejected leaves you with a little less than nothing. Not that I would know anything about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really must suck to be Microsoft these days. Their attempt to buy Yahoo for more money that they actually have was a desperate move to begin with. And now they even got rejected. Who know that Yahoo! of all companies had choices. 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