Microsoft Interested in a New Yahoo Board

More news today on the Microsoft and Yahoo front. Supporting Carl Icahn’s desire to get a new board in place at Yahoo, Microsoft says they’d be interested in talking again to Yahoo about a buyout and merger.
Microsoft’s support of Icahn also intensifies the pressure on Yahoo co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose handling of the earlier sales negotiations with Microsoft infuriated many shareholders.

What do you make of this latest development? Personally I think it’s exactly the thing that I expected to happen eventually. Yahoo’s Yang didn’t make any friends with his bold rebuff of Microsoft’s original offer.
There’s the talk …read more