{"id":256,"date":"2006-05-31T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T09:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/31\/mergers-may-be-next-trend-for-big-internet-companies\/"},"modified":"2006-05-31T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T09:39:04","slug":"mergers-may-be-next-trend-for-big-internet-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2006\/05\/31\/mergers-may-be-next-trend-for-big-internet-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mergers may be next trend for big Internet companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation is rife on Wall Street that a big Internet deal or alliance is in the works, with <strong>Google, Yahoo, eBay or Microsoft<\/strong> as possible partners &#8212; and a <strong>Yahoo-eBay <\/strong>partnership seen as most likely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>A partnership or merger between eBay and Yahoo! is the most strategically feasible,&#8221; <\/strong>a report authored by analyst Imran Khan and the JP Morgan Internet team said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>A combined company would have the leading position in auctions, communications, payments, graphical advertising, audience reach, and geographic breadth<\/strong>,&#8221; the report said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.co.uk\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&#038;storyID=2006-05-30T123101Z_01_NOA044999_RTRUKOC_0_ANALYSIS-INTERNET-MERGERS.xml\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculation is rife on Wall Street that a big Internet deal or alliance is in the works, with Google, Yahoo, eBay or Microsoft as possible partners &#8212; and a Yahoo-eBay partnership seen as most likely. &#8220;A partnership or merger between eBay and Yahoo! is the most strategically feasible,&#8221; a report authored by analyst Imran Khan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,3,11],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","tag-internet","tag-yahoo","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}