First Tick-Tock of Da Deal Gone Dead

By Paul Kedrosky · Saturday, May 3, 2008 ·

Kara Swisher remains waaaay plugged-in on this Yahoo/Microsoft deal. Beating Monday's papers (and her WSJ compatriots' inevitable Monday piece) by ... oh, 36 hours or so, she has up the first credible tick-tock of how the Yahoo/Microsoft deal devolved to this.

Read it and see how Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer make Felix Unger and Oscar Madison seem like French-kissing soulmates.