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AOL and Yahoo Talks
The Yahoo and Time Warner deal has been brewing for months and even years when you take their previous discussions into consideration. Time Warner is giving hints on a potential partnership while almost the same information is being leaked from Yahoo. The problem is, Reuters report notes that the two companies don’t appear closer to signing a deal than they were in the past at the time when Microsoft offered a buy-out bid to Yahoo.
On the other hand, Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is getting some traction because the $33 per share offer for Yahoo was withdrawn. But similar to Reuters, the paper also believes that the talks don’t seem to be serous. For one, they note that the combination have an estimated value of $10 billion on AOL but that was before the Yahoo shares lowered back to trading levels.
In the end, it all comes down to Yahoo looking for alternative ways to bring its value back to $33 per share that Microsoft had already initially offered before talks broke down last May. Meanwhile, Microsoft is searching for ways to improve its advertising search business similar to those by Google.
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