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Publicly, Microsoft, its CEO Steve Ballmer, and its chairman Bill Gates say the company no longer wants to acquire all of Yahoo. Yet corporate raider Carl Icahn continues to wage billions of dollars that a Microsoft-Yahoo merger could still happen. Is Icahn hearing something different from Microsoft than the rest of us? : "Obviously, he has talked to some of our folks," Ballmer told reporters. Icahn issued a nondenial denial when CNBC asked if he's been in communication with Microsoft: "I wouldn't say closely, and I wouldn't want to talk about it anyway, you know?"