DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: We know that Yahoo! is talking to headhunters for a new chief executive on the announcement that Tim Koogle will step down. Now, do they be talking to investment bankers as well? Maybe. Ian Roger, international news editor of the "Financial Times," joins us from London with more on Yahoo!. And I gather Yahoo! has been talking to other companies. Is that correct?</s>IAN ROGER, INTL. NEWS EDITOR, "FINANCIAL TIMES": Yes, we think they've been talking to Vivendi, the French company that used to be in utilities and sewers and things and it's transformed itself into a media company in the past year through the acquisition of Universal from -- with Seagram. We were talking about this yesterday, you may remember. And their boss, Jean-Marie Messier, wants to be the master of the universe. He want to get more profile in the U.S. Certainly, Yahoo! is one way he could do it. And it would also give him the distribution he needs for the universal audio business, the music.</s>MARCHINI: We'll watch this space. Meanwhile, I know you guys are working up a big story for tomorrow's paper. What else do you know about what's going on behind the scenes here?</s>ROGER: Well, there's a lot of anxiety about the international development, which, as you know, Yahoo! tried a lot harder than some of the other people on the portals. And I think we'll have some exposure on what's happened there, and on the difficulty in finding revenue streams to replace the flagging advertising. But watch this space. Read the paper tomorrow morning.</s>MARCHINI: All right, we sure will. Ian Roger, international news editor of the "FT," thanks.
'Financial Times': Yahoo! Talking To Vivendi