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This seems like a very strange idea. But taken in conjunction with the Google ad partnership, just may be plausible, if only to stave off Microsoft.
The Wall Street Journal is floating the possibility that Yahoo! has worked out a merger with AOL as an alternative to be bought by Microsoft. ... Continue reading »
The Wall Street Journal is floating the possibility that Yahoo! has worked out a merger with AOL as an alternative to be bought by Microsoft. ... Continue reading »
7 months ago
* It would solidify Yahoo's ambitions on the middle-America crowd (both Yahoo and AOL have been abandoned - to some extent - by the technorati/bleeding edge), but there is still a big pack of mainstream users that are using these services and still valuable to advertisers
* The 2 companies have been pursuing in-house content strategies that *might* complement each other (think Yahoo's "Shine" and AOL's popular TMZ). Granted Google's been whipping both companies with a distinctly different strategy, but by going the content route, and avoiding the search/adsense competition, they could get out of the direct gunsights of "THE GOOGLE"
* It's not hotmail/yahoomail, but both have significant email and im audiences. There might be something nice there.
* I rarely go to AOL.com, but I just did for kicks and I'll be damned if their homepage doesn't look almost identical to the Yahoo one! (see for yourself). That's synergy baby!
Anyway, I'm grasping at straws here. The big question is: if I'm a large shareholder, which future is sounding better to my wallet? If I'm patient, maybe the AOL/Yahoo deal is sounding good. But if I'm not, the certainty of the MSFT offer sounds damned good in the short-term...and one has to think that a MSFT/Yahoo combo still sounds more potent long-term than an AOL/Yahoo combo (despite anyone's misgivings about Ballmer and the "evil empire").
7 months ago
Now there's this added wrinkle of News corp "changing sides" and siding with Microsoft - meaning if Yahoo! goes Microsoft they could get access to MySpace.
I wonder which will wrap up sooner - YHOO / MSFT or Hilary / Obama?
I really hope YHOOs earnings (real soon now) provide an impetus for action one way or another. It could be that this AOL merger business is just a negotiating tactic to get MSFT to raise their bid. And earnings will be the proof of Yahoo!s worth at this point in time.
7 months ago
I'm also amused by the fact that Google bought a stake in AOL (a year ago?) and MSFT has that stake in Facebook. Everyone has their fingers in so many pies....it makes for some interesting combinations/alliances as you mix and match the various pieces in the puzzle.
7 months ago