Google Wants a Piece of AOL?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 13, 2005 @01:33AM from the waste-of-money dept.

minuszero writes "BBC News is reporting that "Google is said to be in talks with media group Time Warner about a stake in its internet service provider, AOL." Talks are reprted to be in the early stages still, but one possibility is a "three-way joint venture to house AOL's content offering, with Time Warner retaining a controlling interest." Current estimates for this sort of move are around $5bn. The article also claims that Microsoft has also shown interest in tieing up MSN and AOL services." Clearly Google's interest in AOL is their huge CD distribution system, widely regarded as the most advanced in the world as demonstrated by my mailbox.

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Re:The Death of Google? by LnxAddct · 2005-10-13 01:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

AOL is actually the kid everyone wants to be friends with again. They've revamped alot of their business and are expected to have a strong come back. I know it sounds impossible, but thats what Wall Street is saying, and Wall Street doesn't just put its money anywhere.
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Re:Take bets now M$ vs. G.... by bedroll · 2005-10-13 01:54 · Score: 4, Interesting

More on topic I don't think it matters who buys AOL I don't think either company is going to do anything else than cross plug there own products....
Well, perhaps Google would then be able to convince Time Warner that federating IM is worthwhile. If that's the only thing that would happen from this then I'd be happy about it. Especially with MS and Yahoo! supposedly teaming up.