Reuters: AOL contemplating breakup and merger with Yahoo!

By on Dec 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Business December 6, 2010

Reuters is reporting that AOL, Inc. is contemplating a breakup through “a complicated series of transactions” that could end in a merger with search giant Yahoo!. The publication is citing “sources close to the plans” and adds that “the latest discussions derive from plans contemplated in 2008 and 2009 before Time Warner spun off AOL to Time Warner shareholders.” Both AOL and Yahoo! declined to comment on the report when contacted by Reuters; AOL’s stock price rose slightly on the news.

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  • http://christophersisk.com Christopher Sisk

    Yahoo! is a ‘search giant’?

  • Cdub100

    AOL = LOL

  • Max

    Just let it die already. I went to check out an old chat room I used to frequent years ago to see if the old lurkers and jokesters were still there. According to what I assume was to be a real time count, there were just over 32,000 chat room participants for all of AOL. That’s what Twitter, Tumbler and Facebook have done to AOL. In addition to their own galactic inability to understand their own media.

  • http://www.google.com/profiles/Ambrous.0 Aerilus

    Ah the merger queens are at it again who’s idea it this don’t they realize that combining one useless outdated company with another useless outdated company makes a more cumbersome useless outdated company. I mean don’t they teach that in business school?

  • Anonymous

    1996 was great. Signed up to AoL for the unlimited plan (or so I thought). Then my checking account was missing $400 dollars at the end of the month. Turns out that I didn’t specify in the settings page for unlimited so their thinking was that I really just wanted to be online by the hour.
    I miss those early days of learning a new ISP. 28.8 baby, don’t worry, I doubled it to 56k shortly there after.

  • http://bigblenderoftech.com BigBlenderOfTech

    So after merging they will be called “!”

  • http://twitter.com/tsaunders tsaunders

    Wonder what will happen to Engadget?

    Doesn’t AOL own them?

  • Anonymous

    Hmm lets join two internet portals, neither of them knowing what they are or where they want to be. Sounds like a match made in an old AOL chat room.

  • RH

    Remember when, back in the 90′s, every day you would get an AOL floppy in the mail (then CD’s)?
    Everyone said AOL, then Yahoo was going to overthrow Microsoft, take over the world, kill small puppies?
    How long until Facebook becomes the next AOL/Yahoo/Myspace?

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