Getting pandas to mate couldn’t be much more difficult than getting Microsoft and Yahoo to. Mr. Softy makes a grand display, woos, is rejected; Yahoo changes heart, does a strip tease, but Mr. Softy’s pride is too wounded. The insider drama revealed in a lengthy report by the Wall Street Journal plays out like a pair of lovers flirting with disaster one way or the other.
Yahoo Plays Footsie With Facebook Again
Yahoo is considering an investment in social networking darling Facebook, a move that will either validate Facebook CEO Zuckerberg’s valuation strut, or well, won’t.