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04 Aug 2008

Apparently, Time Warner is looking at unloading some of the assets in the grand AOL empire.  Surely, MSFT has made some calls to inquire about which assets are on the block, and at what prices.

That being said, you don’t need to be a genius to figure that over time, MSFT remains interested in Yahoo! - though the likelihood of a deal there is lower than it was before February 2008.

All to say, can MSFT step in and acquire a few of the assets in AOL’s product assortment today, then in a year come back and buy Yahoo!?  It’s not impossible, when you consider that at this rate, Yahoo! very well might be cheaper then than it is now.

Imagine that: MSFT can have both AOL.com and Yahoo.com by 2010 for less than $45B?  Likely, probably not.  But it’s not impossible.