Jerry Yang concedes: "It's not the most fun thing to go through..." Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has had a brutal week, and a rough year. It started when on Monday, Google announced that it was terminating its search partnership with Yahoo, amid antitrust regulatory concerns. Then there were rumors swirling about that Yang was quitting. Then the idea that Microsoft and Yahoo might get back to the table to discuss an acquisition was dismissed by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This despite the fact that Yang made public his desire for Microsoft to buy them, when he said, "The best thing for Microsoft is to buy Yahoo." In this interview, John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media, and host of the Web 2.0 Summit, asked Jerry why he's sticking it out. Battelle suggested that ... [ Read more ]