Microsoft back to sniffing round Yahoo
Nibble
Steve Ballmer has a quiet word
Monday, 19 January 2009, 10:16
HOARSE WHISPERER and Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had a quiet word with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock in New York about a possible merger.
The move suggests that Vole has started negotiations over a web search deal between the two companies could be restarting. Yahoo's new CEO Carol Bartz, told employees she had held an informal conversation with Ballmer too.
Her ears must still be ringing, but neither she nor Bostock are saying what the great man whispered to her. µ
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