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p2p news / p2pnet:- Time Warner is in “advanced talks” to sell its America Online unit” to Microsoft, says the New York Post.
“According to two sources familiar with the matter, Time Warner is in talks with Microsoft about selling the stake in AOL and then combining it with Microsoft’s Web unit MSN,” says the story.
“Under the plan being considered, Microsoft would pay some money to Time Warner for the AOL stake, leaving the two companies approximately equal partners in the venture.”
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New York Post - AOL’S TIME IS UP, September 15, 2005
September 15th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Now that would be a terrible merger! Talk about a monopoly.
September 15th, 2005 at 7:01 pm
Well if Microsoft get AOL you should start saying goodbye to Winamp and ICQ.
September 15th, 2005 at 8:13 pm
an unholy alliance if ever there were
September 15th, 2005 at 9:24 pm
Like I said in my comment to the article, “Web-like, broadband TV,” the cartels are going to try to take over ISP’s so that they can regulate information flow. There is another article about the cartels sending “Cease and Desist ‘Orders’ ” to peer to peer program coders. Things are exactly on target. The cartels are driving people to innovate like never before.
Hopefully, before long, the cartel’s price gouging at the petrol stations will cause some garage hacker to come up with a cheap way to dramatically increase fuel efficience or else produce affordable fuel. If we decide to depend on someone in the government-cartel alliance to do this, it will NEVER get done in this generation.
September 16th, 2005 at 7:24 am
Geeze, I have a hard time deciding which I hate worse, but I think the AOL would probably be the one. I refuse to use either of these.
September 17th, 2005 at 3:10 am
If you drive a vehicle that runs on diesel, check this out. Funny how it doesn’t seem to be getting much press, in spite of the spiraling prices of petroleum based products isn’t it?
http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html
September 17th, 2005 at 3:21 am
Woah. Am i the only one who can forsee a massive revolt by both the aol and msn userbases after they hear that their network is going to be “invaded by the enemy”? Come on, haven’t aol and msn users constantly been at each others throats (figuratively at least) for years? It’s like intel vs amd, nvidia vs ati, there’s no way you want 2 groups like that forced together into one room. Or network.
I see the grandmother of all flame wars starting soon. If not already.