BoomTown was so glad we had this time together with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, just to have a laugh or sing a song about a major search and advertising deal.

I liveblogged the conference call, which I updated as it happened.

Did Ballmer scream and jump up and down? Did Carol say something naughty?

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Here’s what a top-notch source at Yahoo joked to me tonight, after Microsoft walked away from its unsolicited takeover bid to acquire the long-troubled Internet giant.

“Google is now officially our best friend.”

Oh no.

Instantly, an image popped into my brain–that of the slithery Kaa singing “Trust in Me (The Python Song)” to Mowgli from the Disney classic animated film, “The Jungle Book.”

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They are getting very shy over there at Yahoo about the all-seeing eye of BoomTownCam. On my recent visit to the Internet giant’s New York office, its newly installed U.S. ad sales head David Karnstedt wouldn’t let me make one of my shaky-style, irksome videos of him. Europe head Toby Coppel also demurred recently.

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While both newly departed Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and company co-founder and Semel replacement Jerry Yang insisted in interviews yesterday that Semel left on his own steam, there has been clear disgruntlement growing inside Yahoo–even from those who liked Semel–and on the board about stemming the growing feeling that Semel was not the one to [...]

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