RSSReport: Yahoo Also Interested in AOL
By Ed Oswald | Published October 14, 2005, 4:36 PM
Add Yahoo to the list of possible suitors for America Online. Two financial outlets, TheStreet.com and the Wall Street Journal, reported on Friday that the company has shown interest in buying a stake in AOL from Time Warner.
Like MSN, Yahoo is eyeing AOL as another avenue to expand the reach of its search engine. However, unlike its smaller rival, antitrust regulators would likely review such a deal more carefully, as it would combine the two largest properties on the Web today.
Yahoo joins Microsoft, as well as Google and Comcast, in race to make a deal for AOL's portal traffic.
Despite the attention, however, AOL hasn't ever put a "for sale" sign on any part of its service. Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons also claims the driver for the company "is going to be AOL in the short term and the long term," and would increase investment in the service.
Nonetheless, AOL has not specifically denied that it would be willing to part with a portion of its business, leading to speculation that the company may accept a deal if the terms -- and price -- are right.
Yahoo is not commenting to the media on the situation.
Google need to make a Microsoftish move and buy yahoo and aol both.Yahoo and AOL may would actually come through as decent companies afterwards.
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|Yahoo needs to make a Microsoft move and buy AOL and Google, perhaps Google will then be a usable search engine instead of the rubish it is now.
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|I have no problems using Google. I always find what I'm looking for with no problems. I've never had any problems with yahoo search engine either. I just don't particularly like their software.
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|I just don't like the Google interface. I want the old yahoo one back ^_^
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|I fell the same way about AOL. to just let it crash and burn. But I keep forgetting AOL own Nullsoft's Winamp :(
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|i hope yahoo buys them and they both just die away
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|What does this basically mean? Can someone elaborate? Is AOL going under? Or are they in need of funds?
Thanks :)
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|Everyone wants a chunk... I say rip it to shreds. It's long overdue. :D
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|SWEET!!! There goes the neighborhood.......
Who will be next?
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|SUN. Except they won't invest anything, they'll just donate 3 million lines of code lol.
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|i guess every IM service are " joining forces " .
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