Yahoo! spent the holiday weekend locked in talks with Time Warner. The two are looking for a way to split Yahoo! up in order to fend off Microsoft's takeover attempt. The idea is to find a way to merge AOL with Yahoo! in order to fend off both Microsoft and activist shareholder Carl Icahn. The firms spent the time in talks …

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Monday 7th July 2008 13:46 GMT Bryce Prewitt

Oh for fuck's sake

Surely Time Warner can't be this stupid *again*. Fool me once, shame on you... don't they know how the rest goes?

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Monday 7th July 2008 14:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

Pimp my company

Sad, so very sad... is any deal better than the threat of a M$oft deal? Is the board that self interested? I don't know nor care if Icann is the right move, but the present board are just making things up as they go along now.

Paris, at least she had a business and marketing plan that worked.

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Monday 7th July 2008 14:46 GMT Anonymous Coward

@Bryce

oohhh, yes, Time Warner can be this stupid. I was a subscriber once. They raised the bar on being stupid. They made George Bush look like Einstein.

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Monday 7th July 2008 19:32 GMT Andy Barber

Maybe...

...TM can get rid of the rest of AOL, like it did in the UK & elsewhere. Yahoo! is good, (been with them since '95,) the new AOL (US) users will see a benefit. I doubt that AOL UK) users will benefit, as AOL (UK) is owned by CPW.

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