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by jyu 6676 days ago
I was thinking the same. Although now it's the "big 4" because of the Arthur Andersen/Enron fiasco. Viaweb had revenues and was starting to get profit when it was acquired [http://www.paulgraham.com/vwfaq.html]. Perhaps the auditing firm made the due diligence process for Yahoo faster?