A new Microsoft offer for Yahoo?

Gianni Rusconi comments on the possible resumption of negotiations between the Internet portal Yahoo and Microsoft. "The new offer comes from Yahoo head Jerry Yang, who until now had played the role of the proud defender of Yahoo's independence. How to explain this new offer when Yang had blamed Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for the break-off in negotiations? Is this a tactic to relieve the pressure on himself, or an attempt to jack up the sales price?" Rusconi adds that Henning Kagermann, head of the German company SAP, had advised Ballmer to buy the Yahoo shares and come back to the negotiating table, arguing that "Yahoo is showing the first signs of weakness, and without a reliable integration plan for the two companies would never have made the offer of 46 billion dollars to Microsoft."

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