Microsoft to buy AOL?
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
In a News From The Bizarre moment, the New York Post this week reported that Microsoft is looking into purchasing America Online (AOL) from Time Warner. Apparently, Microsoft and Time Warner were already negotiating ways in which to use Microsoft's technologies in Time Warner's content businesses, when Microsoft discovered that Time Warner was shopping around the struggling AOL unit. Obviously, such a deal would likely be blocked by the US government because of the readily apparent antitrust issues. On the other hand, we are talking about the corporation-friendly Bush administration here, you know, the guys who took the most lopsided antitrust victory in US history and turned it into the weakest settlement imaginable. So I guess anything is possible. There's just one problem. The New York Post? Come on, I get more reliable news from personal blogs on the Web.