Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang has stepped down and with this development, Microsoft Corporation is knocking on the door once again.

Microsoft has reportedly made an offer of $31 per share to which the Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive company, providing superior value to shareholders, better choice and innovation for customers and partners

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Now those are big and lucrative numbers to consider! If you are in the shoes of taking over the cudgels of Yahoo (which has reported that Yahoo President Susan Decker will be taking over Yang’s job) you are bound to get sleepless nights to carefully ponder and go over this deal.

Will that Yahoo-Microsoft merger finally be realized? In a manner of speaking it is just a matter of “Deal or No Deal”!

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