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Report: Yahoo Chairman, Microsoft CEO meet in New York

16.01.2009
Watching Yahoo and Microsoft while trying to work out a merger deal last year was like watching two awkward teenagers at a their first high school formal. But, with cofounder Jerry Yang out as CEO and Carol Bartz in, the dancing days may not be over.

Thursday, a to have ridden an elevator with Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the Time Warner Center. "As we entered the lobby they both walked out and seemingly proceeded to lunch together," the tipster wrote.

Valleywag's Owen Thomas floated three possibilities for a Ballmer/Bostock meeting:

1. A friendly meeting between two colleagues.

2. Yahoo and Microsoft could be trying to negotiate a deal -- but why would Bartz sign on as CEO, if the company was about to be sold?

3. Bostock could be "trying to negotiate a sale of the company or its search business behind Bartz's back" -- but this seems very unlikely.