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Merger vs Microhoo - What's the difference?

merger | microhoo |

As a noun merger

is the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.

As a proper noun microhoo is

(computing|humorous) the company that would be formed by the acquisition of by microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in 2005, 2006, and 2007).

merger

English

(wikipedia merger)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
    • ''Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half
  • (economics) The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
  • (legal) An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
  • (linguistics) A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
    • the cot-caught merger

    Synonyms

    * combination * fusion

    Antonyms

    * division

    Related terms

    * mergence * annexation

    See also

    * alliance * buyout * sellout * takeover

    microhoo

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing, humorous) The company that would be formed by the acquisition of by Microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in 2005, 2006, and 2007).
  • * 2008 , Sunit Arora, Arindam Mukherjee, Knock Knock... MS Hoo'' (in ''Outlook , volume 48, number 7, 18 February 2008, page 53)
    • If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.
  • * 2008 , Newsweek (volume 151)
    • Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!
  • * 2008', "Lawrence D'Oliveiro", '''''Microhoo prognostications'' (on newsgroup ''nz.comp )
    • Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.
  • * 2008 , "Matt", [News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!'' (on newsgroup ''comp.os.linux.advocacy )
    • MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo ).
  • * 2011 , unknown author, Went back to 3.5'' (on newsgroup ''mozilla.feedback.firefox )
    • You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo , and it will cost you in the end.