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More sources are raising doubts about a Sunday Times of London report on a complicated deal being negotiated betwixt Microsoft, Yahoo and other investors. Kara Swisher is quoting Ross Levinsohn saying the report is “total fiction” — which is essentially the sort of he told VentureBeat yesterday.

Levinsohn and Jonathan Miller were named as possible leaders of a new management team at Yahoo by The Sunday Times.

Swisher points out that the deal described in the Sunday Times has similarities to one that was on the slab earlier this year: “It involved a very complex transaction involving Microsoft buying a large stake in Yahoo shares, running Yahoo’s search business for a time period and giving Yahoo a huge guaranteed return stream,” Swisher wrote.

CNBC’s Jim Goldman is also quoting sources intimate Yahoo and Microsoft who saying no conduct one’s self is impendent and his Microsoft source tells him “none of the facts of the story, which broke Saturday evening, are true.”

I’hand-to-hand conflict not detecting any clarification, greatening, retraction or other emotion on the story from The Sunday Times. The story is listed as the most decipher on its Web site currently.


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