[patrickg-zill]

Sure they could fund a lot of startups. But how would you manage 1000 startups - hire 50 in-house VCs?

Better to let former MS employees bet their own cash on startups, which MS then gets to pick and choose and buy the ones they find most interesting.

And don't write off Yahoo's presence in the Third World, like China, Philipppines, India, etc. As those economies grow Yahoo's user base there will be more valuable.

[joeguilmette]

haha yea it'd be expensive. maybe $50 billion expensive.