Talk Stock Trading in the b5 biz channel is the rumour (?) that Microsoft is preparing to raise it’s bid for Yahoo:
Even though Yahoo currently has no other competing bidders right now with Microsoft, it is believed that Yahoo is aggressively pursuing alternative routes for the company.
The most likely outcome is that a marriage between Yahoo and Microsoft will occur, with one alternative being perhaps Yahoo tying up somehow with Time Warner. Source: Microsoft Set to Raise Yahoo Offer?

However all is not rosy, even with a higher bid Yahoo’s investment in China’s Alibaba could prevent this takeover from going smoothly.
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There are sometimes when I am glad I don’t get right on a story to blog it.  This weekend with the Microsoft-Yahoo news it was a matter of being sick and not really having the brains to muster a descent post.  I think I’m better enough to give this a shot, good thing too, because I like Scoble’s addition to the discussion:
1. Google doesn’t mind this deal going through at all. Google knows they will be able to outrun a “Microhoo.” Why do they know that? Because they’ve been able to outrun them both separately. As I said on Channel …read more