Google's Clever

Google used a carrot and a stick to meddle in the Microsoft bid for Yahoo.  It state that it would fight the deal on anti-trust grounds and then cut a contingent deal with Yahoo to share valuable technology if Yahoo did not sell to Google.  The technology deal emboldened Yang, the CEO of Yahoo, to ask Microsoft for $37 a share -- a price Ballmer would not pay.  Now the press is all over the failed deal -- did Ballmer or Yang look more foolish???  Google looked smart.