Yahoo CEO to Microsoft: Make us another offer

November 6, 2008 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Business Writer
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(AP) -- Now that a pivotal advertising partnership with Google is off the table, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is ready return to the bargaining table with Microsoft if the world's largest software maker remains interested in buying his embattled Internet company.


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