Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) are talking again. News.com reports that the two companies are “holding informal merger discussions”–which could mean anything from “the companies are discussing a shared vision of Microhoo” to “Jerry Yang is taking Steve Ballmer’s phone calls again.”
“Yahoo has shown some willingness to have a conversation and talk,” a source familiar with the talks said yesterday.
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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size. 11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) are talking again. News.com reports that the two companies are “holding informal merger discussions”–which could mean anything from “the companies are discussing a shared vision of Microhoo” to “Jerry Yang is taking Steve Ballmer’s phone calls again.”
