Monday, April 13, 2009
Yahoo Shares Leap on Talks News. Microsoft? Not So Much.
Yahoo shares leapt on the news, broken in this column Friday and confirmed by others later, that its CEO, Carol Bartz, was in discussions with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about a possible commercial advertising and search partnership.
Yahoo’s stock rose 7.05 percent, or 95 cents a share, to close at $14.42.
In honor of that, Yahoos today must be going to the Internet giant’s homepage and clicking on its famed exclamation point, which causes the page to, well, sound off with a hillbilly Yahoooooooooo!
