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Microsoft was unmoved by the slightly better-than-expected results Yahoo posted Tuesday – and Yang’s claim that the numbers prove Yahoo is worth more – to offer more money. It said it would stick by its price.
“We know what Yahoo!’s worth; $44 billion is a lot of money,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured) said at a conference in Milan on Wednesday.

He also said that Microsoft “is prepared to move forward alone without Yahoo!.”
“Time is money,” he said later. “We made [that] clear in the last letter we sent,” meaning his ultimatum.
Analysts think Ballmer is merely posturing. They also tend to think that Yahoo! is unlikely to get much of a sweetener out of Redmond, maybe a dollar or two a share.
In its ultimatum three weeks ago, Ballmer told Yahoo that he was prepared to wage a proxy fight to unseat its board, an effort that could take a long time and give Google the liberty to forge ahead.
Yahoo!’s earnings were flat with last year except for a windfall one-time non-cash gain of $401 million stemming its stake in the parent company of Alibaba.com, the big Chinese e-commerce site that went public late last year.
Revenues in the quarter were up 9% to $1.82 billion, $1.35 billion, if you subtract the commissions it pays to partners. Funny number that. Google earned $1.3 billion in Q1.
Yahoo! left its disappointing 2008 revenue prediction unchanged at $7.2 billion-$8 billion.
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