From Silicon Alley Insider, July 13, 2008:Microsoft (MSFT) and Carl Icahn made another formal, non-negotiable offer on Friday night to buy Yahoo’s search assets (without releasing details) and gave the company 24 hours to accept or reject it. Yahoo (YHOO)

From All Things Digital, July 12, 2008:When sources at Microsoft last week told BoomTown that it was going to use Carl Icahn as a kind of messenger for a new ad search proposal, I thought: Uh-oh. …