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	<title>Comments on: Microsoft may buy Yahoo and AOL if the latter two merge</title>
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		<title>By: Google abandons Yahoo deal &#187; VentureBeat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Google abandons Yahoo deal &#187; VentureBeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] will turn now to Microsoft, which might be encouraged to renew its bid to acquire Yahoo. Even if Yahoo does try to cozy up to another competitor, AOL, by attempting to acquire its advertising prope... &#8212; something we suggested in [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] will turn now to Microsoft, which might be encouraged to renew its bid to acquire Yahoo. Even if Yahoo does try to cozy up to another competitor, AOL, by attempting to acquire its advertising prope&#8230; &#8212; something we suggested in [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Microsoft-Yahoo-AOL threesome just a sad, sad fantasy [Rumormonger]&#124; All Technology Oriented News, Articles, Reviews, Geek Friendly Site&#124; Suffire.com &#124; Geek Stuffs, Technology Related</title>
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		<dc:creator>Microsoft-Yahoo-AOL threesome just a sad, sad fantasy [Rumormonger]&#124; All Technology Oriented News, Articles, Reviews, Geek Friendly Site&#124; Suffire.com &#124; Geek Stuffs, Technology Related</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] c&#173;l&#173;o&#173;se&#173; t&#173;o&#173; AO&#173;L&#173;&#8221; to&#173;&#173;l&#173;d Ventu&#173;reBeat&#8217;s Matt Marshal&#173;l&#173; th&#173;a&#173;t M&#173;icro&#173;so&#173;f&#173;t pl&#173;a&#173;ns to&#173; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month - Technology Info</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-831570</link>
		<dc:creator>AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month - Technology Info</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Industrie du géospatial : Bilan du troisième trimestre 2008 &#124; BALIZ-MEDIA.com - Magazine sur l&#39;industrie du g&#233;ospatial : cartographie, g&#233;omatique, SIG et GPS</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-831172</link>
		<dc:creator>Industrie du géospatial : Bilan du troisième trimestre 2008 &#124; BALIZ-MEDIA.com - Magazine sur l&#39;industrie du g&#233;ospatial : cartographie, g&#233;omatique, SIG et GPS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ici et là mais rien d’aussi marquant qu’en première moitié d’année. Les toutes dernières rumeurs parlent d’un achat de AOL (MapQuest) par Yahoo! suivi immédiatement d’un achat par Microsoft! [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ici et là mais rien d’aussi marquant qu’en première moitié d’année. Les toutes dernières rumeurs parlent d’un achat de AOL (MapQuest) par Yahoo! suivi immédiatement d’un achat par Microsoft! [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Industrie du géospatial : Bilan du troisième trimestre 2008 &#124; BALIZ-MEDIA.com - Magazine sur l&#39;industrie du g&#233;ospatial : cartographie, g&#233;omatique, SIG et GPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ici et là mais rien d’aussi marquant qu’en première moitié d’année. Les toutes dernières rumeurs parlent d’un achat de AOL (MapQuest) par Yahoo! suivi immédiatement d’un achat par Microsoft! [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ici et là mais rien d’aussi marquant qu’en première moitié d’année. Les toutes dernières rumeurs parlent d’un achat de AOL (MapQuest) par Yahoo! suivi immédiatement d’un achat par Microsoft! [...]</p>
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		<title>By: As other tech stocks rally, Yahoo hits where it was in October&#8230;1998 &#187; VentureBeat</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830570</link>
		<dc:creator>As other tech stocks rally, Yahoo hits where it was in October&#8230;1998 &#187; VentureBeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] would be happy for that merger to happen, not to buy both of them, but rather to swoop in to buy the new Yahoo/AOL search business, Swisher hears from execs within [...]</description>
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		<title>By: As other tech stocks rally, Yahoo hits where it was in October&#8230;1998 &#187; VentureBeat</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830571</link>
		<dc:creator>As other tech stocks rally, Yahoo hits where it was in October&#8230;1998 &#187; VentureBeat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] would be happy for that merger to happen, not to buy both of them, but rather to swoop in to buy the new Yahoo/AOL search business, Swisher hears from execs within [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Our Techno Lyrics &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830432</link>
		<dc:creator>Our Techno Lyrics &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#171; Randa On The Web</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830396</link>
		<dc:creator>AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#171; Randa On The Web</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo’s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they’re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they’d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo’s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they’re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they’d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#124; Article Blog</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830353</link>
		<dc:creator>AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#124; Article Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&rsquo;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&rsquo;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&rsquo;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#124; Green Media Lab</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830326</link>
		<dc:creator>AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month &#124; Green Media Lab</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: If Yahoo and AOL Merge, Will Microsoft Reconsider?&#160;&#124;&#160;Technologizer</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830321</link>
		<dc:creator>If Yahoo and AOL Merge, Will Microsoft Reconsider?&#160;&#124;&#160;Technologizer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] it could make good strategic sense for Microsoft to come to the bargaining table once more. As VentureBeat pointed out last month, all three companies are desperate to do some type of deal, all for [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Taste Kid&#8217;s Journey &#187; Yahoo and AOL Merge, Microsoft Buys</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830320</link>
		<dc:creator>Taste Kid&#8217;s Journey &#187; Yahoo and AOL Merge, Microsoft Buys</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] that be an interesting threesome arrangement? Even though it&#8217;s just a speculation, it is an educated one based on real facts and logical arguments. The basic scenario is the following: the Yahoo-Google advertising deal fails due to anti-trust [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] that be an interesting threesome arrangement? Even though it&#8217;s just a speculation, it is an educated one based on real facts and logical arguments. The basic scenario is the following: the Yahoo-Google advertising deal fails due to anti-trust [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Ajax Girl &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month</title>
		<link>http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/09/26/microsoft-may-buy-yahoo-and-aol-if-the-latter-two-merge/comment-page-1/#comment-830317</link>
		<dc:creator>Ajax Girl &#187; Blog Archive &#187; AOL-Yahoo Merger Details Emerge; Deal Could Happen This Month</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Factors favoring a deal: the companies believe Yahoo&#8217;s advertising platform would monetize AOL assets far beyond what they&#8217;re generating today (a little over $2.4 billion annually). And those against: combined dominance in mail (they&#8217;d have 48% of all worldwide email accounts according to Comscore, with Microsoft #2 at 42%) and instant messaging (39% worldwide combined market share, compared to 55% for Microsoft). In reality, though, email and instant messaging market share are only a problem if Microsoft then comes in and buys the combined entity. [...]</p>
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