D: All Things Digital Conferences
Look, you can’t beat Google. We can’t beat Google. We decided that by partnering, we can’t beat Google. So by force-merging together two companies that can’t beat Google, we’ll beat Google! (By the way, this is the kind of logical thinking that led to the brown Zune!
— BoomTown’s Kara Swisher decodes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s letter to Yahoo’s Board of Directors