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A couple sources tell us that Jerry Yang is in talks with Neville Isdell of Coca Cola and Hormel president Jeffrey M. Ettinger about a possible alternative plan to the Microsoft acquisition.
In this plan, Coke and Hormel would trade ownership of the Minute Maid and Stagg Chili brands to Yahoo, in exchange for 30% […]

According to sources close to the deal, Microsoft will be offering Yahoo engineers free copies of Visual Studio and Windows Vista as part of a “generous retention package” they will be offering after an acquisition.