Soon after announcing their deal to combine forces on Internet search and search advertising, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked with BusinessWeek about how the deal came about and how they plan to make it work as they jointly take on search giant Google.
In a short conversation with me and my colleague Peter Burrows, the two CEOs displayed an easy rapport (and shared love of expletives) that was remarkable given the more than 18-month battle between the two companies. It's a rapport, staged as it might have been, that they said would be key to carrying out the deal over the next two years of integration.
Here's the full interview, after the jump:
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