AOL considers Merging with Yahoo? .... Why?
 

http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/14/tech..._aol/index.htm


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Yahoo's stock price surged in pre-market trading on reports that rival Internet portal AOL is considering a takeover of the company, with some help by private equity firms.

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One dying giant trying to merge with another. Maybe with their powers combined they can form a black hole in the internet.

AOL has a smaller market cap than yahoo?

Can someone elaborate on what that term means for me, does it mean AOL has less money or less market share ?

Woah, there's a couple of names from the past. Didn't know they were still around. lol

Market Cap is the value of a business that is traded on the open market. You get a company's market cap by taking the price per share and multiplying it by the number of current outstanding or held shares.

It's one way to look at a company's value. It's not all encompasing, but in a nutshell it's what the company is currently worth on the open market. By saying AOL has a smaller market cap than yahoo it's saying that the value of aol is sig less than yahoo so they will need to bring in another entity to make the aquisition happen. In other words, they can't swing the cost on their own steam. :2 cents:

Hope that helps.

"Smaller market capitalization" ... (share price * number of shares outstanding) ... which is to say; the number of dollars worth of stock that have been purchased and are currently held by the market.

AOL is 1/10 the size of Yahoo, yet people are so excited, Yahoo stock is up 10% today ($16.75)

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Yes, this is just a little disturbing. Maybe then they can relaunch geocities and private chat rooms. :1orglaugh

My father's new wife used to be a top manager for AOL and she lost her job a few months back with every thing that was happening...AOL has been going down forever.

Same with yahoo. Yahoo seems to have a good grasp on free email (similar to how many people still use aim from aol) but dropping paid inclusion, bringing in Bing, etc... goddamn, they are fucking up.

Paid inclusion was such a beautiful thing. Fucking yahoo :321GFY

AOL is trying to take over Yahoo, AOL search is powered by Google.

Is it really Google that is trying to sabotage Yahoo/Bing?

Does that make any sense, don't know much about the current aol-google connection.

This has been brought up all morning long in numerous places, its a pretty heated discussion, though in the end, seems very odd in over all scheme of things. Google could just buy yahoo, bing and aol if they ever so choosed to in my opinion.

The government might step in to prevent that. Might be a violation of Anti-Trust / Anti-Monopoly laws and regulations. :2 cents:

Because two pieces of shit in the hand is better than one.


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:1orglaugh:1orglaugh damn u, that is was I was going to say

but maybe they are powering up to be the biggest spamming and bot hole in the internet?

I cant believe yahoo has a bigger cap than AOL, I havent been following AOL for years but at one point in the UK, probably 10 years ago they were absolutely everywhere!

Aren't AOL the parent company to Warner bros etc ?

Dayum,
I missed a whole lotta history:
The total value of AOL stock subsequently went from $226 billion to about $20 billion
As of June 2010 AOL's subscriber base has dropped to 4.4 million

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL#Description

which is why its so surprising that they would go after something such as Yahoo and its present state.

Here we go again. After the Time Warner/AOL debacle (described last week as "the worst deal in corporate history - ever") you might have expected the lesson to have been learned, but desperation can make for some odd decisions and even odder bedfellows. So AOL, a company with big problems, is considering buying Yahoo, a bigger company with bigger problems!

http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_ne...oemailTTVDaily