

Microsoft and Yahoo are engaged again in buyout talks, Techcrunch is reporting.

We’ve got multiple sources at both Yahoo and Microsoft telling us that official talks are back on between the two companies. But we’re hearing something different than CNET – the talks are about a full buyout again, not a sweetened search-only deal.

Yahoo stock is up sharply, apparently on this report, after languishing at even for most of the day. As of this writing, Yahoo was trading at nearly $23, a gain of more than 7 percent on the day. Techcrunch says information on price is "thin," but is said to be less than the $33 on the table when talks broke off.

Adding weight to the report is Microsoft's "no comment," which, author Michael Arrington says, "actually contains more information than it appears to. For well over a month, Microsoft has officially been saying they're no longer interested in Yahoo."