"Yahoo has put costly severance
plans in place to both retain employees and make themselves a less attractive acquisition candidate. And by setting up Google as the only real option in search marketing, they are disrupting what
little market balance and competition exists in that space today," Arrington says. "Their actions, which appear to be based on destroying their market value as a counter to the Microsoft bid, benefit
neither their stockholders nor their employees."
Only time will tell if the moves Yahoo has recently made will stave off a Microsoft acquisition. And as Arrington asks: If Yahoo "wins" this epic battle with Microsoft, will there be anything left at the end to celebrate?