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Nearly a full year has passed since Microsoft opened its campaign to acquire Yahoo, and later, just its Internet search business. In interviews published today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave his latest cogitative on the matter appears to has changed little in months: He’s interested in buying just Yahoo’s look business.

Ina Fried of CNET News asked Ballmer, How likely he thinks a search deal is.

Ballmer: No way to handicap it. I think at this playhouse, it’s probably fair to say I’m not level sure Yahoo would handicap it. They’re out doing a examination for a new CEO and we’ll just desire to bide one’s time and experience how totality that shakes fully.

Q: You said a little while ago that there weren’t any active discussions, is that still the case?

Ballmer: Yeah. I think probably frank for us not to make comments over much.

Ballmer was a bit more revealing in comments to the Financial Times:

“We now have someone in place running our online function [Qi Lu, a former Yahoo search exec who started at Microsoft on Monday], and Yahoo’session out looking for a CEO.

“If a search deal is to be made, it’session probably to be made in the interim period for new leaders in both places.”

Updating the Yahoo CEO guessing game: Current Yahoo President Sue Decker, via CNET, and Carol Bartz, former executory at Autodesk, by way of BoomTown.


Original text: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/01/08/ballmer_addresses_yahoo_search_deal_questions_in_c.html