Here we go again. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) may need to look at combining their companies and search efforts over a year from when a combined "Microhoo" was first put on the table. Current Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz tossed the latest gold coin into the fountain by saying this week that "boatloads of money" would be the only possible way Yahoo! would look at teaming up with Microsoft would happen.Bartz danced around the issue and minced words a bit by answering that "You know, if there's boatloads of money and there's the right technology and there's the right information we'd have, sure. But you know, there's two parties in all of this and the other party needs to have a boatload of money, and ... the right technology and give us the right data, and so forth. So it's that simple."
The right data? Uh, yeah -- that would probably help. It might also help if she nailed down "boatloads of money" to a specific figure for Microsoft to buy part or all of the company. Both options may come back to the table soon, and Bartz seems like the anti-Yang -- she'll sell the company for the right (and reasonable) price.Should YHOO investors expect yet another play for Yahoo! sometime in 2009? Doubtful, but early in 2010 may prove fruitful. It's doubtful that Bartz would entertain a deal with under a year in her CEO tenure at Yahoo!, and with so many problems to fix.
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