Icahn Sweet Talks Microsoft Back to the Yahoo Table

We’re running out of relationship metaphors to describe the on-again, off-again business dealings between Yahoo, Microsoft and more recently, Carl Icahn. As it stands the trio appears to be somewhere between Three’s Company and Melrose Place.

Over the week-end reports surfaced that Icahn, who is currently waging a proxy battle against Yahoo’s board, had convinced Microsoft to publicly renew its interest in Yahoo’s search business as long as Yahoo replaces its board. The question now, according

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