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Almost there

March 5th, 2008

About a month ago, I predicted Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo would temporarily fail and give Yahoo 12 months of do or die and that instead Microsoft would buy AOL, a company that wants to be bought.

The Wall Street Journal reports Yahoo is ’stepping up’ talks with AOL over a merger. In my mind, that has zero percent chance of happening but it does establish a set of valuation principles for AOL that will ultimately lead it to the Redmond negotiating tables.

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  1. AOL Circus Show | Bronte Media said, on March 12th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    […] But if they just hang on long enough to dump the mess into Microsoft’s hands…. […]

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