So we see the news today that Microsoft would like to buy Yahoo for 44.6 billion dollars. That's an insane amount of money to try to comprehend, so we've compiled this handy guide to understanding what that kind of dosh would buy you. Converted to sterling, it works out at around £22.4bn, which would buy you:
- 84,881,371 years of Be's top-flight 24Mbit/sec internet connection
- 13,841,063 iPhones including 18 months of O2's most expensive plan
- 11,049,646 high-end MacBook Airs
- 1,241,891 specced-to-the-hilt Mac Pros with two Cinema Displays
- 186.74 David Beckhams1
- 172 summer blockbusters2
- 26 space shuttles (or 99 shuttle launches)
- 11 Queen Elizabeth IIs3
- Three quarters of a Bill Gates
All of which kind of puts into perspective quite how much Bill Gates is worth, doesn't it?
1 Assuming £120m fee from LA Galaxy
2 Based on Spiderman 3 costing $258m
3 She's worth £1.9bn
