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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Murdoch says News Corp, Yahoo tie-up very unlikely

    Kenneth Li
    SUN VALLEY, IDAHO
    Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:02am EDT

    SUN VALLEY, IDAHO (Reuters) - News Corp's Rupert Murdoch said it was "very unlikely" his company would be involved in any Yahoo Inc. transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal.

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    Asked whether he thought Yahoo would end up in Microsoft Corp's hands, he said, "There won't be a deal. There's bad personal feelings."

    Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo earlier this year for $47.5 billion, but withdrew its offer in May after feeling frustrated over discussions.

    "In six months, (Microsoft) will walk away," Murdoch said at the annual Allen & Co media and technology moguls confab.

    News Corp has reportedly been on the sidelines of recent discussions involving Yahoo.

    Shortly after Microsoft offered to take over Yahoo, News Corp held talks with Yahoo to combine its popular MySpace Internet social network with Yahoo and separately discussed a possible deal with Microsoft to take over Yahoo.

    Murdoch said one of Yahoo's biggest investors Capital Research, whose portfolio manager and legendary media insider Gordon Crawford publicly chastised Yahoo for failing to secure a Microsoft deal, would have gladly settled for a buyout at $33 per share.

    "He's pissed he didn't get $33," Murdoch said of Crawford.

    Would Crawford have backed a deal to sell Yahoo for $33 a share?

    "He would have taken it in a flash," Murdoch said of the price that Microsoft last offered before it walked away from talks with Yahoo.

    (Editing by Will Waterman and Sue Thomas)
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