It is good for Yahoo's shareholders that Carl Icahn has stepped in to try to represent their interests. Icahn wants the Yahoo board to simply announce that Yahoo is for sale (and for a nice, tidy $49.5 billion, too). But would this even work? Why should Microsoft buy the company at this point -- especially at a premium price? Microsoft would tick off its own shareholders with a move like that, especially now that it is moving toward simply getting an interest of some sort in Yahoo's online ad sales -- the only thing Microsoft really wants.
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