AOL In Talks With Microsoft to Merge Online Divisions, Says WSJ

Ian Lamont writes "Microsoft executives are reportedly meeting with their AOL counterparts to discuss combining the two companies' online divisions. No one from either side is willing to comment, nor has the structure of the supposed deal been worked out. The original unconfirmed report comes from the Wall Street Journal (password-protected). A few months ago there was talk about AOL teaming up with Yahoo, but that never materialized." The free excerpt at the WSJ link above seems to say about as much as this Bloomberg wire report which refers to it, and the above-linked story at The Standard; this Reuters story indicates that AOL is still courting or being courted by Yahoo!, too.

Comments

Time for a name change after the merger...

[dwiget001]

Keep the three letter acronym, but just change the first letter...

SOL!

What... is Ballmer stuck in 1999 or something?

[the_skywise]

Vista = Windows ME

Microsoft wanted to buy AOL or compete directly with the MSN network and now they're back to that again.

Maybe they're thinking they can get a set of dedicated eyeballs to use with a revamped "Xbox-ish" live service (except for your GRANDMA!) on the PC and thus up their search engine hits for ad space...

Re:Microsoft and AOL... LOL

[griffjon]

Now there's a merger I can agree with.