engine - 12:38 pm on Nov 6, 2008 (gmt 0)

Yahoo CEO, Yang, Disappointed Google Didn't Fight Harder [latimesblogs.latimes.com]

Just this morning, with the Department of Justice threatening to sue to block a proposed search advertising partnership, Google announced it was walking away rather than face a protracted legal fight. "It's disappointing to us that Google didn't want to defend this deal," Yang told conference program chair John Battelle. Battelle interviewed Yang as part of the three-day conference, which is focused on the theme "Web meets world."