Bartz Would Sell Yahoo for ‘Big Boatloads of Money’

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Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz reiterated Wednesday that Yahoo is still talking with Microsoft (MSFT) “a little bit” about a possible search deal, but said that it would require a “boatload of money” along with the right data-sharing arrangement (because the search data is key to Yahoo revenues, ad relevance, and user experience). Pressed onstage at the AllThingsD conference whether she would reconsider selling the entire company to Microsoft, she replied: ” Oh, they’d have to have big boatloads of money.” While she still seems resistant to the idea,the fact that she would now consider it at the right price is a softening of her public stance. This doesn’t mean an outright sale is back on the table (that original $45

billion boatload of money left port a long time ago), but at least she is open to the possibility.

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