Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer must be as tired of saying it as we are of reporting it: Microsoft isn't interested in buying Yahoo anymore. Move on.
"We are not interested in going back and re-looking at an acquisition," Ballmer told the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in Sydney. "I don't know why they would be either, frankly."
We do. Yahoo seems to be rudderless and without a prospect that doesn't involve a white knight of some kind. Jerry Yang would have looked like a genius if he had taken the $33 a share offer back in May. And Google walked out on an ad search deal this week that itself would have provided only incremental revenue.
Ballmer's latest "no thanks" follows Yang's latest public self-humiliation, telling a web 2.0 audience two days ago that he thought Microsoft should buy Yahoo and he was open to talks again.
"I believe the best thing for Microsoft to do is to buy Yahoo," he said.
It would have been more accurate if he said the best thing for Yahoo is for Microsoft to buy it.
Yang is running out of time and has already run out of ideas: When tying up with AOL looks like salvation, it is perhaps time to ... move on.
Ballmer rules out new Yahoo bid [ZDNet]
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