Do you AOL-Yahoo? Maybe you will, if they merge

Vikingod · Dec 27, 2006, 02:50 PM

Source: ars technica
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AOL and Yahoo are destined to merge, or so said Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen in a note entitled "Is 2007 the year AOL and Yahoo are in play?" that was sent to investors shortly before the Christmas holiday. Both companies have itches in need of much scratching. Yahoo's problems have been quite visible as of late, as noted in the now infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto. To boil it down to an oversimplification that's still technically true, Yahoo is feeling the heat from Google.

BlueMak · Dec 27, 2006, 03:14 PM

You don't have to be first to do great. Why are they worried so much?

SFOSOK · Dec 27, 2006, 06:28 PM

Because its hard to survive once your not on top. The gap will soon grow larger and larger.

BlueMak · Dec 27, 2006, 07:23 PM

well, I hope they don't merge. I don't trust AOL at all.

Dec 27, 2006, 02:50 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Do you AOL-Yahoo? Maybe you will, if they merge Source: ars technica __________ AOL and Yahoo are destined to merge, or so said Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen in a note entitled "Is 2007 the year AOL and Yahoo are in play?" that was sent to investors shortly before the Christmas holiday. Both companies have itches in need of much scratching. Yahoo's problems have been quite visible as of late, as noted in the now infamous Peanut Butter Manifesto. To boil it down to an oversimplification that's still technically true, Yahoo is feeling the heat from Google. __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*

Dec 27, 2006, 03:14 PM	#2
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,248 Rep Power: 328 System Specs	You don't have to be first to do great. Why are they worried so much? __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Dec 27, 2006, 06:28 PM	#3
SFOSOK 939 Goin Strong Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 7,033 Rep Power: 89 System Specs	Because its hard to survive once your not on top. The gap will soon grow larger and larger. __________________ Warning - Explicit Content Preceeding METAL!!

Dec 27, 2006, 07:23 PM	#4
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,248 Rep Power: 328 System Specs	well, I hope they don't merge. I don't trust AOL at all. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*