Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is scheduled to talk with Web 2.0 Summit co-host John Battelle at 4:50 p.m. PDT Wednesday. Given the collapse of the Yahoo-Google advertising deal, it should be an interesting discussion. Here's our live blog of the discussion...
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