Mark S. Mahaney

The YHOO-MSFT Crap Shoot

John Paczkowski in News on June 16, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

On stage at our All Things Digital conference last month, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said that a search deal with Microsoft would require a “boatload of money,” and an outright acquisition even more. It doesn’t require a great feat of augury to see that an agreement between the two–at least at this time–isn’t that likely, as a number of analysts have recently noted.