Yahoo and AOL suddenly close to merging? Options

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Yahoo and AOL suddenly close to merging? Posted by XanTium | April 10 00:16 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From engadget.com: [QUOTE] Yahoo's done its best to fend off Microsoft's aggressive advances until now, but it suddenly looks like the struggling company might be getting some help -- both the Wall Street Journal and Reuters are reporting that the Yahoo is "closing in" on a deal to merge with Time Warner's AOL division and partner up with Google on search advertising. The idea is for Time Warner to sell AOL to Yahoo and make a large investment in the new company, which would probably be valued at around $10B. [/QUOTE] Full Story: engadget.com | wsj.com | reuters.com

[nagmine]

ah.. would have been a better idea to go with MS.

[metalcoat]

This will not pass regulatory commissions. Although I like Google and all, one company controlling 90% of advertising on the internet simply won't be good.

[Elemino]

I don't get it. Are they saying to keep microsoft from buying yahoo they will sell theirselves to another company? That's a bit much to play hard to get isn't it?

[Maverick-DBZ-]

I don't get it. Are they saying to keep microsoft from buying yahoo they will sell theirselves to another company? That's a bit much to play hard to get isn't it?

If by "theirselves" you mean AOL, then yes, if not I have no clue what you just read....


Time Warner owns AOL.

Time Warner sells AOL to Yahoo.

= Makes Yahoo a much bigger company and too "rich" for Microsoft to buy.


Then Timer Warner buys a nice percentage of Yahoo, thus sealing off MS from owning any large percentage of Yahoo.

It's a clever idea, but I don't think it's going to work, but if it does....


As far as the Yahoo/Google partnership, it looks like its just has to do with advertising and nothing more so don't go crazy people!!!

This post has been edited by Maverick-DBZ-: Apr 10 2008, 08:00 AM

[trey85stang]

ah.. would have been a better idea to go with MS.

not really.

This will not pass regulatory commissions. Although I like Google and all, one company controlling 90% of advertising on the internet simply won't be good.

I think it will be fine, there doesnt appear to be any trade issues to me. If it does occur it will basically kick microsoft off the web all-together which is a good thing.

[b0ris84]

I don't have nothing against microsoft but what they are doing to yahoo is wrong. If someone doesn't want to be bought out than stop trying. Microsoft is doing anything they can to acquire yahoo. They have so much money and power that they will use stocks to acquire it. I'm glad yahoo is fighting back and not allowing ms to buy them out. MS is getting more and more greedy I think their rich and powerful enough. They released a crappy OS and are forcing it upon everyone and most people cannot do anything about it. They are not a monopoly but they have a lot of power in the computer world.

[scuba156]

I don't have nothing against microsoft but what they are doing to yahoo is wrong. If someone doesn't want to be bought out than stop trying. Microsoft is doing anything they can to acquire yahoo. They have so much money and power that they will use stocks to acquire it. I'm glad yahoo is fighting back and not allowing ms to buy them out. MS is getting more and more greedy I think their rich and powerful enough. They released a crappy OS and are forcing it upon everyone and most people cannot do anything about it. They are not a monopoly but they have a lot of power in the computer world.

how are they forcing vista on everybody, if they will be releasing a new OS next year to overtake vista?

i dont think this will work for yahoo or time warner. this company is steadily dropping and i dont think anything can help it

[luther349]

oh i dunno vista only drivers on some hardware aka trying to drop xp like a bad habbit in under a year. not giving xp dx10 after they relised vista was a huge failer. games for vista only. of course all this was hacked around but its still the attempt that matters.

but forcing no they cant make you buy anything and if you hate windows that bad install linux.

but to get on topic m$ doesent need yahoo hell i didn't even know yahoo was in trouble. its just a sad attempt by m$ to try and take over the search market. but giving yahoo aol hell aol itself is a dieing brand at least as a isp unless there planing on making aol dsl yahoo does have yahoo att dsl. or something but even then most people have learned other then aim everything abought aol sucks.

This post has been edited by luther349: Apr 10 2008, 12:39 PM

[scuba156]

oh i dunno vista only drivers on some hardware aka trying to drop xp like a bad habbit in under a year. not giving xp dx10 after they relised vista was a huge failer. games for vista only. of course all this was hacked around but its still the attempt that matters.

vista only drivers were due to bugs already present in vistas drivers. the bug fixes had nothing to do with XP, so there was no need to release them. and thats not up to MS anyway, thats up to the hardware companies.

DX10 is not available for XP due to the WDDM technology in Vista, it has nothing to do with MS decided not to release DX10 for XP, its due to the OS's changes in the graphics API and driver mode. there is 'fallingleafsystems' way around this but not actually take advantage of direct3D 10 and is incompatible with just about everything.

games for vista was a marketing strategy and was the only thing pushing user to buy vista (only if they really cared about playing those games anyway), but was used only for MS studio games. many of the games require DX10, and use Live for Windows which is not available for XP (due to it being bulit into the OS)

[Elemino]

I don't have nothing against microsoft but what they are doing to yahoo is wrong. If someone doesn't want to be bought out than stop trying.

It's not wrong. If yahoo didn't want people trying to buy the company they should have never gone public in the first place. As soon as you offer stocks you're saying "come buy pieces of our company." That's exactly what MS is doing; it's just a much larger share than yahoo wanted anyone to buy.

If by "theirselves" you mean AOL, then yes, if not I have no clue what you just read....
Time Warner owns AOL.

Time Warner sells AOL to Yahoo.

= Makes Yahoo a much bigger company and too "rich" for Microsoft to buy.
Then Timer Warner buys a nice percentage of Yahoo, thus sealing off MS from owning any large percentage of Yahoo.

It's a clever idea, but I don't think it's going to work, but if it does....
As far as the Yahoo/Google partnership, it looks like its just has to do with advertising and nothing more so don't go crazy people!!!

Thanks... you did clear it up cuz I didn't get any of that. LOL

But I don't think it will make the companies value too much for MS, but I guess that's what they said in the article.

[loki232323]

It's not wrong. If yahoo didn't want people trying to buy the company they should have never gone public in the first place. As soon as you offer stocks you're saying "come buy pieces of our company." That's exactly what MS is doing; it's just a much larger share than yahoo wanted anyone to buy.

Yeah but MS is pretty much trying to strong arm them on this one. Giving a deadline and saying that if you don't accept the offer we'll do this or that...

Ms has no reason to buy yahooo except that they are greedy and don't like seeing other companies dominatiing the way they do. MS should focus their attention on fixing all of the issues with their current divisions/offerings.

I mean who wants to see MS come in a F up the search market? I know I don't....

[irnchriz]

Surely its down to the Yahoo shareholders if Microsoft gets to buy them or not?? Microsoft were annoyed that the Yahoo board did not even give the investors a say in whether they were willing to sell to Microsoft.

I would laugh my ass off if Yahoo joined with AOL and were valued at around 10bn and then Microsoft bought them both anyway......


Wait a minute, maybe thats part of the plan. Maybe Time Warner want to dunp that big ol white Elephant that is AOL and they reckon that if Microsoft are desperate to get Yahoo they can move AOL at the same time

[0794]

I would laugh my ass off if Yahoo joined with AOL and were valued at around 10bn and then Microsoft bought them both anyway......
Wait a minute, maybe thats part of the plan. Maybe Time Warner want to dunp that big ol white Elephant that is AOL and they reckon that if Microsoft are desperate to get Yahoo they can move AOL at the same time

i was thinking the same about some way to get rid of AOL - seems like they need a serious re-branding like HP did to Compaq...

Yahoo would be better off affiliated with MS rather than Time Warner/AOL...oh well, we will see what happens...

[TMownsu]

Wow two sinking ships joining to be one. Way to value your shareholders yahoo.