Blodget Blasts Icahn Over Yahoo Flap

Silicon Alley Insider‘s Henry Blodget writes that—see if you can follow this—a source close to Yahoo, a source close to Microsoft, and Carl Icahn all disagree about a central piece of the search proposal that Yahoo rejected over the weekend: whether or not Icahn would be given control of Yahoo.

As Blodget says, this part was really important because it “was an obvious deal-killer.” How did we get to this point? Blodget gives a play by play of what went down over the weekend and then summarizes it for us:

“Here’s what we think happened: We think Carl Icahn’s personal agenda screwed up what otherwise might have been a reasonable search offer from Microsoft.