CEO: Yahoo willing to sell search business

Yahoo’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Carol Bartz on Wednesday said the company is willing to sell its search business to Microsoft if the software giant offers “boatloads of money.”

Carol Bartz, newly named chief executive of Internet company Yahoo Inc, is shown in this undated publicity photo released to Reuters January 13, 2009.

“If there’s boatloads of money and the right technology involved, we’d do a deal, sure,” The Wall Street Journal quoted Bartz as saying in a report on the newspaper’s website.

Bartz made the remarks at the All Things Digital conference sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, which is being held in Carlsbad, California.

When asked whether talks between Yahoo and Microsoft are still going, Bartz said “a little bit.”

Bartz took the CEO reins of Yahoo in January from the company’s co-founder Jerry Yang, who last year rejected Microsoft’s offer of about 47 billion U.S. dollars to buy Yahoo.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said repeatedly that his company is still interested in striking a deal with Yahoo on search business.

It was reported that the two sides have resumed talks on possible search and advertising deals in recent months.

Ballmer is scheduled to speak at the All Things Digital conference on Thursday.

Microsoft, Yahoo in discussion on ad partnerships: report

Microsoft and Yahoo are discussing possible deals in which they would sell advertising for each other, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday

Informal discussions have intensified recently with Yahoo chief executive officer Carol Bartz and her counterpart, Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer meeting last week, the newspaper said in a report on its website, citing people familiar with the matter.?Full story

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Yahoo music site to link to You Tube, radio

?BEIJING, April. 7 (Xinhuanet) — Yahoo users will now be able to gain access to content and buy songs from other range of providers following the internet giant’s partnership with other digital music retailers.

?Beginning today, consumers can watch music videos stored on YouTube, listen to Internet radio streamed from Pandora or buy songs from iTunes through the new version of Yahoo Music unveiled Monday.