40 bucs a share. $43 actually. competitors cornered its markets, google now dominates search and ad revenue, facebook dominating social network and lack of aggression, perhaps, is the common charge thrown at yahoo! that failed to make deals with its competitors. 2008, fast forward there to the botching of its of the microsoft takeover in 2008. it turned down $47 billion, compare that with its current market capitalization of $20 billion. also botched, it said, anyway, according to analysts, an ad revenue deal with google that same year. bartz joined at the start of 2009. let s have a look at where we are now. sorry, january 13th, 2009, carol bartz was hired then. let s have a look at the next one here, carol bartz being fired and share price, $12.
to 14 years in prison for the murder of a black teenage, stevon moore, at least two decades ago. the judge said they committed a terrible and evil crime because of racial hatred. they were convicted with new forensic evidence that was not available back then. for the first time in more than 50 years, a british foreign secretary is in myanmar. william hague is meeting with government officials bringing a message of reform and offering britain s help. he s also meeting with pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi. her party has been re-establi re-established and will be part of elections in april. those are the top stories from cnn. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. our top stories this thursday, january 5th european investors are on edge as greece sounds the alarm and france faces a big test on the bond markets. a