Microsoft and Yahoo have resumed negotiations

The dramatic story with the participation of Microsoft and Yahoo is not over. The day before yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was resuming negotiations , and a day later information appeared citing sources at Microsoft that the company intends to acquire Yahoo's search business, as well as an additional “small, passive share” at Yahoo. In the absence of more detailed data, analysts immediately struck into fertile speculation about what this very “minority, passive stake” means, although this is not even a direct quote from an anonymous source, but a presentation of information from the words of the reporter who spoke to him.

They say that the goal of Microsoft may be Yahoo's Asian assets, especially since rumor has long been circulating that one of the largest Chinese portals, Alibaba.com, has long been asking its main shareholder Yahoo to sell its share of Microsoft. Another version - Microsoft may buy a share owned by Karl Ikan.

Multi-billionaire Karl Icahn - one of the major shareholders of Yahoo, who is extremely aggressive in accepting the decision of Yahoo's top management to reject the deal with Microsoft. Now he threatens to dismiss the entire management of the company , if they do not achieve an acceptable result on this deal before the annual meeting of shareholders on July 3.
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Such a deal will cost Microsoft much less than the $ 40 + billion for which the Redmond giant wanted to buy Yahoo entirely . In addition, Steve Ballmer will be able to save face and end this corporate war with the look of a winner.