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 Send to email | AOL (TWX) Bidding War Between Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO)? in General |  By Silicon
el 04-May-2008 |
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 One thing's for certain: The collapse of the Yahoo-Microsoft (YHOO / MSFT) deal could be the best thing to happen to Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes for a good long time.
Yahoo reportedly has a deal teed up to buy AOL for about $10 billion. We suspect that the newly dumped Microsoft may have something to say about that.
AOL wouldn't give Microsoft what Yahoo would have, but it would help the company strengthen its web-based communication busines (AIM, AOL Mail, etc.) Mapquest could be a nice fit with Microsoft's mapping products. Advertising.com, Tacoda, et al, (Platform A) would give Microsoft a major jumpstart in the third-party display business. And AOL's 6% search query share would at least bring Microsoft solidly above 10% of the search market.
Microsoft could easily outbid Yahoo for AOL--and, for obvious reasons, might be in the mood to. As long as it doesn't pay too much for the wreckage of its once-dominant web competitor (and then integrates it successfully), the deal would likely make sense.
See Also: Microsoft Walking
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