FourEyesSquad

Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition. Together, Microsoft and Yahoo! can offer a credible alternative for consumers, advertisers, and publishers.

- Steve Ballmer, CEO, in a letter to Yahoo’s board

Familiar much?

The past year we’ve seen (and feared) the growth of the search giant that is Google while it acquires one budding startup IT company whose product compliments Google’s after the other. It seems that everyone must do their best to please Google otherwise it’ll put its axe on the webmasters’ heads.

Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo have been tailing Google for several years now and it sees that they just couldn’t get ahead. So what to do? Microsoft finally gave an offer to Yahoo’s board of directors — the proposal sent represents $31 per share (a 62% premium over yesterday’s closing price) or about $44.6 Billion. Steve Ballmer, CEO and big fan of developers, says, “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.”

The deal, of course, rests with the two coming to a “merger agreement” and Microsoft (and Yahoo to a limited degree) having the time to conduct the required due diligence. If Yahoo accepts, will this finally be the Google killer?

Who could actually resist Yahoo! mail’s unlimited storage? You could have numerous number of mails with attachments and not worry about the emails sent to you ever bouncing back to the sender. It’s no wonder why some people would use yahoo mail to consolidate their email addresses.

It’s not a very well-known feature but like in gmail, you could send emails using your other email addresses (as long as you can verify it, of course) and also fetch your pop3 mails. It’s very simple, you just have to do the following.

In your yahoo account, whether it’s classic or the new skin, go to your mail options. You will be brought to different options to manage your mails. Now you have to select “Accounts”, and from there, click on add or edit an account.

(more…)