Time Warner to Sell Part of AOL

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Time Warner To Sell Part Of AOL...

By: Nathan Weinberg
2008-02-07

...Possiby as Pre-Cursor to Google Sale. Time Warner announced it is planning on splitting apart and selling its AOL division in multiple parts...

...getting rid of all or most of the ISP/internet portal/software/communications company. First to be sold will likely be AOLs online service, the ISP that used to be king of the internet access world. Many are theorizing that once unburdened by AOLs past, AOLs search and portal might be served up as an acquisition target for Google.

Should Google buy AOL, if offered at a decent price? Probably not, unless were talking super cheap, like under $3 billion. Otherwise, AOL would be a better fit being bought by IAC. AOL Search could be redirected to Ask Search, and AOL.com could become the portal of IAC/Ask. AOL has a lot of properties IAC could use a lot more than Google, if IAC has the cash to go for it.

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