Yahoo may indeed agree to Microsoft's US$44.6 billion bear hug, but it will be over Jerry Yang's dead body.
Microsoft officially withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo on Saturday but only after it threw an additional US$5 billion on the table.
Analyst report speculates that Google may want to pre-empt Microsoft takeover and protect the revenue Google gets from its biggest partner.
Google has refused to comment on speculation that it might bid for radio spectrum in the UK, after communications regulator Ofcom announced plans to auction radio frequencies as part of the "digital dividend".
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, according to a Google executive.
The world of speculative telecommunications investments has quieted down considerably since the beginning of the decade, when hype-fuelled carriers plunked down billions to reserve the right to carry mobile phone calls, video calls, and massive volumes of spam at high speed using then-fanciful 3G mobile technology.
As Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its takeover bid passes, the tech world is still waiting for information from either company on their wedding plans.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
Fund manager Tom Taulli says the comedy of errors leading up to the IPO is as much about management hubris as it is bad fortune.
CNET's Esther Dyson offers contrary thoughts on Google's IPO, and some ideas for what could come next.
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