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Mahendra Lochhab

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Yahoo's $2.36 trillion mistake: 1998: Google wanted to be acquired by Yahoo, so Google offered to Yahoo for $1 million, but Yahoo refused. 2002: Yahoo realized its mistake and offered to acquire Google for $3 billion, but Google demanded $5 billion, which Yahoo refused. 2008: Microsoft offered Yahoo $44.6 billion but Yahoo rejected the offer. 2016: Verizon acquired Yahoo for $4 billion. Today Google's market cap is $2.36 trillion, Microsoft's market cap is $3.11 trillion.

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