CNET: Yahoo, Microsoft Nearing End Game

CNET News blogger Charles Cooper wrote this morning that the clock is ticking down for Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to “unveil Plan B.” Cooper also said that it’s possible Microsoft believes Yang is bluffing and plans to pursue this deal through to a conclusion—all signs that we may soon see two of the biggest Internet portals struggling to combine all of their cell phone services, too.

Bill Gates said in an earlier CNET interview that he thinks the combination with Yahoo would “accelerate things in a very exciting way, because they do have great engineers, they have done a lot of great work.

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