The meaning of a Microsoft, Yahoo merger

Microsoft and Yahoo are in preliminary stages of a possible merger that would be enormous by standards of the tech industry. The two companies combined may challenge dominant Google, but they are like all Internet-driven companies as they try to devine the next great uses of the Web.

Guests

• Jay Greene: Seattle bureau chief for Business Week magazine.
• Steve Johnson: Internet critic for the Chicago Tribune. He writes the Hypertext blog on the culture of technology.

More from MPR

• To take on Google, Microsoft bids $44.6B for Yahoo
  February 1, 2008

Resources

• Jay Greene: Yahoo Plays the Field with News Corp.
• Steve Johnson: "Google Goes Local But Misses By a Mile"
• Johnson's Hypertext Blog