8. In 2008, Microsoft approached Yahoo to buy it for $44.6 billion. Thinking it was being undervalued, Yahoo rejected the offer. While this turned out to be a big mistake on Yahoo's part, in hindsight, Microsoft probably was probably better off not making that deal.
1. Time Warner was bought for $182 billion in 2000 by AOL, which had 30 million subscribers. Within a few months, the economy fell into recession, the dot-com bubble burst and the AOL-Time Warner deal was being called “the worst merger in history.
7. Yahoo tried to acquire Facebook in 2006 for $1.1 billion. After both sides agreed to the deal, Yahoo changed their offer at the last minute to $800 million. Mark Zuckerberg refused the deal, and Yahoo lost yet another huge deal.
Talk about cool promo art! The characters are so iconic, it feels like you could make a fighting game out of it! Mad respect to the artists @ProjectYinYang.
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In 2005, IKEA decided to start using 3D modeling for its catalogs. It proved to be so efficient that by 2014 75% of their catalog visuals were CGI.
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