Microsoft is meeting with AOL executives Wednesday to talk about the two companies combining AOL and Microsoft's online division, according to a news report.
Microsoft, spurned in its recent efforts to buy all or part of Yahoo, wants to explore ways to combine with AOL, according to the Wall Street Journal. The two companies have been discussing a possible deal for months as an alternative to Microsoft buying Yahoo, the Journal reported in its online edition Wednesday afternoon.
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Representatives of Microsoft and AOL didn't immediately respond to a request for comments.
The structure of a deal between AOL and Microsoft hasn't been worked out, the Journal said.
Microsoft has made multiple offers to buy Yahoo this year. Yahoo on Saturday rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn that would have sold Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
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Reprinted with permission from IDG News Service. Story copyright 2008 IDG News Service Inc. All rights reserved.
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No, no, no!
Stop making bad decisions!
NO WAY.
If Microsoft were to actually consolidate their OWN divisions and focus on their core business, they wouldn't keep NEEDING to get into the OSP/ISP world, and especially into the search business. Every search they've created has failed (not necessarily because of poor programming, but sometimes!) , so why would they keep throwing money at the field?
And hey, just ask Time-Warner what a "deal" AOL was when they merged. Ewww.
BOHICA: The AOL Story.
(Bend Over Here It Comes Again)
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