Jerry Yang still wants to talk to Microsoft.

In more of what is wrong with brinkmanship, Todd Bishop from the Seattle PI is reporting that Jerry Yang is still interested in talking to Microsoft. So let me get this strait, you let the suitor walk away from the table during intense negotiations on what the deal with eventually cost, you keep on bringing up more money and more money, and Microsoft won’t do it. They tell you they won’t do it, and they take off.

Now Jerry Yang is sorry?

Executive Jerry Yang said he wasn’t necessarily closing the door on further talks with Microsoft. The comments came as Yahoo’s shares closed down more than 14 percent today following Microsoft’s announcement Saturday that it was withdrawing its acquisition bid. “We were negotiating a way to find common ground and then on Saturday they chose to walk away,” Yang told Reuters. “They started it and they walked away.” He added: “If they have anything new to say, we would be open … I am more than willing to listen.” Source: Seattle PI

That one boggles the mind, the deal is over with, Jerry is telling folks about all the great things that Yahoo can now go do, but still will be willing to go on talking?

This sounds more like stunt dating

But is it not, knowing that they are wounded, and needing to work out ways to keep themselves from collapsing, offering hope is about the only thing that Yahoo has left. There are “so many deals on the table” that our future is unlimited style of talking.

Placating angry employees, angry stockholders, and other issues along the way, hope is about all Yahoo has right now to offer. Hope that they will once again do good things.

If they can raise hope of an AOL, Google, Microsoft, Someone/Anyone kind of deal, then maybe the fallout of the deal breaking dollar amount can keep the company afloat for a few more years. Hope does not make a business, but it keeps people placated for a bit, until that hope fails to generate action.

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