Suck it Microsoft?

[BYH]

Yahoo and AOL deep into talks on a merger.

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB120776803032602423.html

 

[amraeder]

Why does Micorsoft want a sub-par search engine in the first place? I mean, a hostile takeover of Yahoo! would help them corner a huge chunk of the online e-mail universe, but that hardly seems worth it. I don't know. I just don't get it...

 

[Point of Order]

Yahoo is now a content producer. They do their own, sometimes very good, news and sports coverage. They also own Rivals.com if I'm not mistaken.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

And Microsoft is a software company. Makes perfect sense.

 

[TigerVols]

Yahoo and AOL merging is like Times Mirror and Tribune or Knight Ridder and McClatchy joining forces -- marriages between dinosaurs.

 

[zebracoy]

Or like AOL and Time Warner.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Yahoo and AOL merging is like Times Mirror and Tribune or Knight Ridder and McClatchy joining forces -- marriages between dinosaurs.

AOL is a dinosaur (which is probably why it's not an online service anymore). Yahoo just needs to refine its focus.

Yahoo-AOL makes more sense than Microsoft-Yahoo.

 

[Steak Snabler]

How much of a money-maker are fantasy games for Yahoo?

 

[Italian_Stallion]

How much of a money-maker are fantasy games for Yahoo?

Huge, I'd imagine. They sell leagues and StatTracker. With baseball, you're talking about daily visits from more than a million people. That number is just an estimate. I don't know whether it's accurate. Yahoo has hired many experienced and talented newspaper people. I don't know how AOL fits into things, but it should add value. I suspect in five years we'll have us a Disney vs. Yahoo battle for the WWW.