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Microsoft and Time Warner Team Up Against Google
PlayfullyClever wrote to mention a Reuters report on an online advertising deal between Microsoft and Time Warner. The two companies are teaming up to take on Google's advertising network. From the article: "The [WSJ] said the two companies were now focusing on a deal that would combine their advertising-related assets, with little or no money changing hands. It said they expected to reach an agreement before the end of the year, but that it was still possible that Time Warner's America Online unit could strike a deal with competitor Google instead."
TW/AOL:Losses in the billions.
Microsoft Entertainment/Internet Operations: Losses in the billions
Google have every right to be worried. With the losses these two titans amass, they could well suck up a lot of advertising revenue on the way to losing record billions.
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Two weakened giants leaning on each other for support.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Even if that alliance holds, I think google will win. Microsoft had its time and that times is gone.
I think its probably in TW/AOL best interest to work with BOTH Microsoft and Google. Ofcourse, TW/AOL is not known for its bright business decisions in the past.
If Time Warner's AOL unit were to strike a deal with Google instead, how many chairs do you think would be thrown in Redmond?
Your "facts" have no place in this anti-micro$oft discu$$ion.
The cool thing is that whenever anyone mentions playfullyclever, it'll just post the above +5 debunking comment and get moderated up for it.
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that will keep the empire out of here forever.
....Are better than one.
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M$-AOL. Because good clean code counts. With the track record of the software coming from said companies; we can only look forward to a stable, robust, and premium priced internet service. *shiver*