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Yahoo Talking With Time Warner
About combining AOL with Yahoo
The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner over a possible acquisition deal that would keep Yahoo out of the hands of Microsoft. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the paper says the talks involve folding the perpetually struggling AOL unit into Yahoo to create a new search (aka advertising) giant, with Time Warner taking a minority stake. The News corp. owned paper also reports that News Corp. remains a possible suitor, but Time Warner is the hottest rumor at the moment:
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They say that Yahoo and Time Warner had an earlier round of discussions, but talks intensified recently after Yahoo went back to Time Warner to ask for a proposal that it could take to Yahoo directors. Time Warner is putting the finishing touches on that proposal now. The people familiar with the matter say that the companies estimate about $1 billion in cost savings annually.
Should Time Warner grab Yahoo, that could be win for Time Warner Cable, who could then offer Yahoo's services to its broadband customers (assuming the frequently disconnected media giant, which struggled with AOL ownership, could muster that much synergy). While talks continue among multiple partners, the anonymous sources quoted by the Journal still seem to think that a Yahoo purchase by Microsoft as the most likely outcome.
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accounting8
join:2008-02-29
Columbus, OH

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Yahoo and TWC

"Should Time Warner grab Yahoo, that could be win for Time Warner Cable, who could then offer Yahoo's services to its broadband customers"

No Thank You!
macaholic
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join:2003-08-31
Jackson Heights, NY

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well if Microsoft gets Yahoo...

It won't exist in a year or two and everone knows it. Microsoft has this nasty habit of buying competition and then sucking it dry and getting it wrong...Look at Hotmail... now Microsoft Live is struggling soooooo lets buy the competition and shoot them in the back of the head execution style.

Case in point was one of my favorite product: Aloha Bob PC relocator... it was too inexpensive and too easy to use so Microsoft brought them and put them down leaving Laplink PCmover to overcharge for there buggy product.... of course there's the craptastic product MS built into there OS.

Will

TechyDad
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Re: well if Microsoft gets Yahoo...

Sure Yahoo will still exist. As a branding name. They'll rename Windows Live into Microsoft Windows Live Yahoo! or something. Then they'll force Yahoo to move their services over to Windows boxes and .NET. When the hastily written code starts crashing left and right, they'll let it languish for awhile until it's all but dead.

Meanwhile, someone (Google, maybe) will come up with a replacement for most, if not all, of Yahoo's services. Google already competes with (or surpasses) Yahoo in many areas. The major thing that Yahoo has that springs to mind that Google doesn't really compete with is Flickr. Should Microsoft buy Yahoo, I could definitely see Google enhancing their Picasa Web application to become a Flickr replacement.
rahvin112
join:2002-05-24
Sandy, UT

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Exactly my sentiments and essentially the thing I said immediately after the public announcement. Microsoft buys Yahoo and everything that makes Yahoo good is immediately dead. Microsoft can't help but screw it up by trying to tie it to the windows and office monopoly and all the other crappy software they make. Had they left hotmail alone and allowed it to improve it would still be around, but they ignored it, rebranded it a dozen times and gmail ate their lunch.

Now after they purchased and spent billions creating all the different Internet strategies they want to buy Yahoo for an astronomical amount of money (which being that the purchase is through MS stock won't be worth as much tomorrow as it's worth today) and they will shoot Yahoo and royally kick the crap out of everything that makes Yahoo unique and a good portal. Microsoft can't be an effective internet competitor because they try to tie everything to all their other products. They just don't get it and probably won't ever get it.

hayabusa3303
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WOW

Yahoo is in the news alot lately.

Tw or news group niether should get it.

Have i missed something here on yahoo, and why it is up for sale, besides MS trying to take it over. Have i missed the boat somewhere?
Pictor Guy
join:2004-06-21
Sammamish, WA

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TW and Y!?

I find it extremely unlikely that TW would buy Yahoo! Not sure where that came from since TW is looking to dump AOL, not take on another new media property it doesn't understand.
EPS4
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA

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Re: TW and Y!?

The article says that TWX would just get a minority stake, which they'd probably sell off at some point- it'd rid them of AOL and leave the new company to someone else to take care of.

GoodDog55
join:2000-07-03
Goshen, NY

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Just what TW doesn't need, another tech company that doesn't make money. Who starts these rumors?
xenophon
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Google needs competition

In the hands of a traditional media/entertainment company, Yahoo will not be as progressive as Google. But for any media company that acquires Yahoo, it would propel them and differentiate themselves way ahead of other media companies.

A deal would be good for the acquiring media company but probably not Yahoo.
ltjordan
join:2001-12-02
Hyattsville, MD

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Re: Yahoo.

Microsoft. Time Warner. Either way, Yahoo's days are numbered. They need to just accept that fact and realize that at least with Microsoft, they'll come out of it with a big pay day.

Smith6612
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join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY

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There probably goes my V' Yahoo

Yes, I'm one of the people who have Verizon Yahoo! as their package for DSL. If Time Warner were to buy Yahoo, I'm not sure what would happen to my e-mail account that goes through Yahoo.

rosco35
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join:2003-11-10
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Re: There probably goes my V' Yahoo

if you have an @verizon.net email address you should be fine, you might have to access your email through a different portal, or an e-mail client like outlook express.

asato32
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uh. who cares about you email. duh. theres no money in that.
crucialcolin11
join:2004-09-12
Roseville, CA

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open source

I for one actually like this deal. The main good that would come out of is the fact that both aol and yahoo currently are open source friendly unlike Microsoft which would undoutibly kill anything that even resembles open source or runs on open source tech. Not to mention this helps keep sites like flickr alive as it entire based off open source servers.

Noah Vail
Oh God please no.
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join:2004-12-10
SouthAmerica

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Like combining H2O and Water.

Nearly all of my spyware victims are regular Yahoo! users. Although Yahoo! permits spyware to be channeled through the Overture network, Yahoo! is usually not the source.

It's that the users who are prone to the bad judgment that allows spyware installation are also prone to the bad judgment that convinces them that Yahoo!'s flash and clutter is somehow a rewarding and productive internet experience.

Which brings us to AOL; a sanctuary for those dedicated to internet incompetence. AOL at least makes some effort to minimize security risk (usually at the cost of ½ the users CPU cycles). They know their target audience and carefully limit their internet possibilities so as not to confuse them.

So I guess the plan is to stuff the walled garden so full of cluttery content, that the user is unable to notice the malware that is now just as trapped as he.

Progress has a new name. YAOL-hoo!

NV

fatmanskinny
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Microsoft should by Google....

Wait, isn't Google worth just about as much as Microsoft? I guess no hostile takeover of Google. Lol!

cork1958
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Just a ploy?

This is all just a ploy by Yahoo. It's all in the name of that almighty dollar! Let's talk, just a little bit, with everybody, and see how bad that teases MS. Maybe even get lucky and scarfed up by somebody for even more. Who knows?