If you follow tech news at all you know that Microsoft has been attempting to purchase Yahoo over the objections of Yahoo’s management/board. Yahoo has been resistant and recently implemented a short term deal with Google to display Google ads on Yahoo’s web properties, a move that many saw as an attempt to pressure Microsoft to up its bid (currently $31/share). The Wall Street Journal recently broke the news that Yahoo and AOL are discussing a merger as well, and apparently Microsoft and Time-Warner are discussing a deal that would join MSN, Yahoo, and MySpace. The final outcome of this extremely high stakes game of technological chess remains to be seen, but it seems likely that two or more of the Internet’s biggest properties will soon be combining forces. The question remains, “Which two?”
How in the World is AOL at all present in the Web 2.0 age? Good grief, they were outmoded in College, and I went in the mid-90’s!
Yahoo! is great, Microsoft is awful. They shouldn’t merge, EVER!
AOL is a big deal simply because of their ridiculously high number of pageviews. I don’t know exactly why anyone still goes there though, other than for Circavie, of course.
True, and I guess I failed to remember that often times I’ll read their ‘AOL Fanhouse’ for sports blogging, which is actually okay.
I just don’t like their tactics, or their “all inclusive” nature.
It’s like when you see a really attractive female, and she’s with some tool, and you think to yourself; “Man, she’s way too good for him.”
Same feeling I get out of a possible AOL/Yahoo! merger, although I think MSN isn’t any better, either.
You, my friend, are funny.