Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested June 3 that a long-rumored search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo would save her company between $500 million and $700 million, mostly in staff reductions and data center cutbacks.
However, Bartz also used her podium at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference in New York on June 3 to suggest that Yahoo remains a viable competitor in the search space, without any assistance from Microsoft.