Yahoo Seeks Deal With AOL

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Trust me, I am as tired of hearing about Yahoo as you are but it seems that, no matter how hard I try, they do something crazy that forces me to post another news story about them. AOL? What are they thinking? Meanwhile Microsoft is talking to News Corp. about a joint bid for Yahoo.

Yahoo's talks with Time Warner are getting near to a deal that would fold AOL's business, excluding its legacy dial-up Internet access operations, into a combined Yahoo company, a person familiar with the talks said.
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God damn, seriously. AOL Time Warner needs to go away all together.
 
Yahoo isn't all that anymore. They should br happy MSFT is even offering that much.
 
Well this is certainly a way to lower Yahoo's value more than it already is. Seems they care less about their monetary value than they do about their 'religious fanaticism'.
 
Y! is just looking for whatever out they can to get "away" from MS. Not that any action they take would halt a hostile takeover...
Even though I know that Y! just wants MS to drop it and move along, I think MS should just go to the shareholders now and say "Hey, how does that offer look now?"
 
10 bucks Time Warner will offer less than Microsoft. And if Yahoo takes the offer, then they lied about not having anything against Microsoft. I can't even WAIT to see the looks on shareholders' faces when this happens.
 
I'm surprised with how the purchase of AOL went for them that they would be willing to take another large risk like that. Too bad for them its 3rd times a charm and not 2nd time.
 
I thought that TW was trying to sell AOL now. Funny that AOL bought them a few years ago.
 
Frankly,I'd rather not see MS expand any more than they have already,but - AOL?:confused: They're hardly the force they were in the old dial-up days,in fact,they've pretty much become a running joke.Yahoo is going to have to do alot better than that!
 
Azhar said:
10 bucks Time Warner will offer less than Microsoft. And if Yahoo takes the offer, then they lied about not having anything against Microsoft. I can't even WAIT to see the looks on shareholders' faces when this happens.
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Of course AOL will not offer more than M$ did. M$'s offer is insane, way above Yahoo's value. No one will cover it and much less increase it.
 
Well, it seems like Yahoo would be the buyer in this case, because theres no way in hell that Timewarner can afford Yahoo... ever. The key here is that timewarner wants to offload AOL and have someone else deal with it and yahoo is the perfect company to take over the dying AOL.
 
AOL kills everything it touches, so let them accquire Yahoo.
 
Yes, YayWho should swallow AOL, then they can both go croak under the stairs.

Just like MB learned with Chrysler. and TW learned with AOL....

... whether you get Chocolate in my Shit, or Shit in my Chocolate....it will always end up Shit flavored Chocolate :eek::rolleyes::p
 
Maybe Yahoo is going to buy AOL for about $75,000 then try to claim they are more important and bigger now thus Microsoft should offer them more money.
 
Silus said:
Of course AOL will not offer more than M$ did. M$'s offer is insane, way above Yahoo's value. No one will cover it and much less increase it.
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Hence the genius of Microsoft's move. I am super impressed.
 
StillFunkyB said:
QFGDMFT

I hate how "everyone" uses AIM. I am sure you know what I mean when I say "everyone".
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After Yahoo buys them then everyone will use Yahoo IM and you won't have to worry about AIM. I wonder if Yahoo does actually buy them if they will continue to AOL tradition of making their software more viruslike than 98% of the viruses out there?
 
StillFunkyB said:
QFGDMFT

I hate how "everyone" uses AIM. I am sure you know what I mean when I say "everyone".
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Sadly most of us who knows better have no choice because of the vast sea of people who don't know better uses it. If we want to talk to them, we have to have AIM.

I use Pidgin so I could at least not see their software on my computer and still use their service.
 
You can look at it this way-
o Yahoo merges with AOLs non-network operations
o The new entity does little to stabilze or enhance Yahoo's place in the market
o It adds new burdens of support/administration and increases costs while at
the same time adding volume to its percieved infrastructure
o Overall it increases its corporate footprint thereby 'validating' its statements that the Mon$ter
is under-valuing Yahoo's worth

Only due diligence would prove that out and I doubt M$ would get the chance while making a hostile attempt at take over ;)
 
There are other options to aim though at least on the software side...trillian
 
Azhar said:
Sadly most of us who knows better have no choice because of the vast sea of people who don't know better uses it. If we want to talk to them, we have to have AIM.

I use Pidgin so I could at least not see their software on my computer and still use their service.
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At least you don't have to use their software, I'd honestly rather not use the service at all but like you said....
 
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