Is Bay Becoming Soft?

I'm not sure how much more this is going to get interesting! Here are the players of the deals which were making things HOT last week - Dell, AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, eBay! So, what now? Microsoft is intending to buy up eBay! How far is this news/rumour true?

At one end, I feel Microsoft is not able to fight the fight with Google and hence, is going for all the mergers - Taking down all the possible competitions and the possible new innovations with it.

At the other end, it's like Microsoft is making very bold moves and trying to make all the impossible things possible - If it is about the advertising market, it'll try to do anything and everything to get MSN going without any hurdles. It tried AOL and there was this news about Microsoft trying its hands on Yahoo. And now, its eBay. If at all this merger happens, then the other two eBay's driving units - Skype & PayPal - will walk along with MSN. Is eBay ready to offer its helping hands and put itself underneath the MSN logo?

Any new insights on how this is going to change the market? Is Yahoo's deal with eBay going to show some difference?