Microsoft buying yahoo! | techcrunch

…are what two newspapers are currently speculating. No official deal of any kind has been made yet but apparently Microsoft has started talking with Yahoo! about a possible acquisition. Wall

Street seems to be pretty happy about the news, as Yahoo! shares jumped 14.6-percent and analysts say the move is crucial to beating Google. However, there’s a problem with the reporting

here. Those two newspapers? One is the well-respected _Wall Street Journal_ while the other is the sketchy-as-hell _New York Post_ (25 cents baby!). But hey, everything the _Post_ prints is

true, so this deal has gotta be happening. So let’s say this deal does end up going through. Yahoo! is a pretty big company and it’s going to take a lot of cash for Microsoft to buy it out.

In fact, early reports estimate that MS will have to pay around $50 BILLION or so for Yahoo! Inc., which is a lot of friggin’ money. Guess we’ll have to wait until Monday or next week to see

if anything comes out of these talks. Microsoft eyeing deal to buy Yahoo: reports [Reuters]