Possible Yahoo Sale Puts Focus On AOL
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Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo on Friday revived debate about AOL's plan to remake itself as an online advertising company and whether it might too become a target for acquisition.
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Yahoo  is seeking to restart  merger talks with AOL  as a means of defending itself  against an unsolicited bid approach from Microsoft ,  the Times newspaper said on Monday.
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Yahoo! gets into the game with its latest acquisition.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc is reportedly in talks with News Corp to combine their Web properties, but Wall Street analysts rained scorn on the likelihood of a deal that can fend off Microsoft Corp's $42.1 billion bid for Yahoo.
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Social-networking Web site   Facebook.com is in serious talks to sell itself to Internet   media company Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O for an amount that could   approach $1 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on   Thursday.
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Microsoft&#39;s $44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo&#160;is a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.
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The Motley Fool - It's no secret that Internet frenzy 2.0 has included a fair share of small Web start-ups getting bought out by Internet giants. Yahoo!'s (Nasdaq: YHOO - News) reported interest in buying social networking site Facebook last week is yet another case in point. However, craigslist founder Craig Newmark went on the record saying he's not in the least bit interested in a buyout. And guess what -- nobody should be in the least bit surprised.
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Most of Yahoo Inc's  top  institutional shareholders may be more interested in making  sure Microsoft Corp  does not overpay for the Web  pioneer, because they have more money invested in the bigger  software maker, a research report said on Friday.
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Time Warner Inc, the world&#39;s largest  media company, will &quot;look hard&quot; in the next 12 to 18 months at  possibly selling off its AOL dial-up Internet access business,  similar to its strategy in Europe.
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Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Yahoo's new financial advisors want it to chase down a merger with AOL to counter Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar bid. But can AOL parent Time Warner afford Yahoo's financial freight?
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In both a literal and symbolic move, AOL announces a move to New York and a new focus on the online-advertising market. But is it too little too late?
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Yahoo is seeking to restart merger talks  with AOL as a means of defending itself against an unsolicited  bid approach from Microsoft, the Times newspaper said on  Monday.
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Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off&#160;Microsoft&#39;s bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.The two companies are in talks about a deal in which News Corp. would take a stake of as much as 20 percent in Yahoo. MySpace and other Web properties of News Corp. would be combined with Yahoo, according to the report, which was attributed to &quot;people familiar with the matter.&quot;The deal would also involve a cash infusion by News Corp. and a private equity firm. Yahoo would remain independent.On Monday,&#160;Yahoo rejected Microsoft&#39;s $44.6 billion unsolicited buyout bid, saying it undervalued the company. Microsoft has vowed to take all necessary steps to close the deal.A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. News Corp. and Microsoft could not immediately be reached for comment.
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AOL will be getting a dose of Cramerica.
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Believe it or not, Microsoft isn't really serious in its bid to buy Yahoo, according to one financial analyst, who says the proposal is really just a ploy to fend off a potential deal between Yahoo and Amazon. Could he possibly be right? Probably not.
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Yahoo! must consider the Microsoft deal on the table.
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Microsoft bid may be catalyst for needed change at Yahoo, but Yang and company are expected to fight it, insiders say.