Microsoft now wants to buy AOL

[temi]

NEW YORK--Time Warner's discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft or Yahoo have taken on new urgency ahead of Yahoo's Aug 1 shareholders meeting, a source familiar with the discussions told Reuters on Tuesday. The structure of any deal is not immediately clear, though a combination of any of the parties is expected to redraw the landscape for advertising on the Internet.
Sources had said earlier that a deal with Yahoo would likely involve merging AOL with the Web pioneer, with Time Warner taking a minority stake in the combined company. A deal with Microsoft would likely be a sale of AOL, the sources said.
Time Warner and Microsoft declined comment. A representatives of Yahoo was not immediately available.



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[Cryxellis]

Thanks for this info temi Microsoft doesn't have a success on Yahoo and now
they are trying to get AOL, but isn't that it was gone? And I think the never
ending war between Yahoo and Microsoft will not end. For Microsoft cannot
accept the word "no" right?

[gkd_uk]

Thanks for sharing Temi.

[Midwest]

Microsoft tries to buy pretty much everything they can get their hands on, as far as I can see. What's next on their "shopping list", I wonder?