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Microsoft-Yahoo! - Yahoo! Board Reportedly Set To Convene Today

Outside advisors have been telling Yahoo! to capitulate and take the Microsoft deal.
By Maureen O'Gara
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February 8, 2008 02:00 PM EST
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The Yahoo! Board is supposed to convene today to thrash out whether or not to accept Microsoft's $44.6 billion acquisition offer, try to get Microsoft to sweeten the pot, or resist and hammer out an outsourcing deal with Google, according to TechCrunch. Based on what the blog (http://www.techcrunch.com/ ) has heard from unidentified sources, Yahoo!'s outside advisors have been telling it to capitulate and take the Microsoft deal.

However, it says, a bunch of resistant Yahoo! senior executives backing the Google option will state their case to the board.

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Call It Off 02/08/08 12:22:30 PM EST

Why doesn't Microsoft just upgrade MSN and skip the Yaboo! deal - a $40+BN saving!?