Decision time for Yahoo

Yahoo! has only six days left to determine whether it wants to stay independent or surrender to the might of Microsoft. The once giant of internet businesses is scrabbling to locate an alternative to the takeover by Microsoft or at least force it to significantly increase its offer of $31 a share.

Yahoo! is due to disclose its first quarter profits at any time and these might show it in a favourable light and improve its situation.

Yahoo has been attempting to put an advertising sales partnership in place with Google to deter take over the Microsoft. The partnership would effectively permit the display of Google’s Adsense adverts to compliment Yahoo’s own advertising and search results.