Comments on: An AOL and Yahoo Merger: Failure Squared? http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/ Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Painful or Not, Yahoo is Doing What It Needs To: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-553789 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:49:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-553789 [...] — and is so similar to the restructuring that AOL has been doing that there have been reports about a merger between the two (which would likely help neither). But for the moment at least, cutting back on the number of pies [...]

]]> By: John Smith http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-360825 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:39:43 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-360825 A Merger Could Really Help Them Beat Google, writes Jessica Vascellaro and Anupreeta Das at The Wall Street Journal: “A combined Yahoo-AOL would have greater scale to compete in online advertising against industry juggernaut Google Inc. While both companies draw huge amounts of users, their advertising businesses have struggled as they’ve faced competition from a range of websites.”

]]> By: andrew http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-298050 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:32:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-298050 No, derr actually AOL is buying Facebook. Then Google is buying Oracle so they don’t get sued, but Oracle is buying Yahoo after which they will merge with AOL, who is doing a reverse merge with Microsoft to form a superDUPERcorporation: YAFMOG. One company to rule them all!!!11one

]]> By: Yahoo Reactions: - NYTimes.com http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-297208 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:02:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-297208 [...] tying two rocks together produce something that will fly with investors?” GigaOm’s Matthew Ingram asks, adding, “An AOL-Yahoo merger sounds like the worst idea since… well, since AOL and Time [...]

]]> By: B http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-296975 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:59:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-296975 Interesting post. I also dig the general snarkiness of it.

]]> By: Todd http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-296953 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:27:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-296953 Root cause: Yahoo and AOL decision makers/principals have myopic “all in” mentality. Failure to see the individual value of the component parts ( of which Yahoo has many ) exacerbated by obsession with “head count = $$$.

I actually want to see this immanent train wreck occur, with the hope it’ll clear out the Bernie Madoff who are at the helms of both companies…maybe Flickr, Yahoo Pipes and Fire Eagle will wash through the drain on the floor of the slaughterhouse, end up as stand alone entities.

]]> By: Dennis McDonald http://gigaom.com/2010/10/14/an-aol-and-yahoo-merger-failure-squared/#comment-296916 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:50:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=165871#comment-296916 Sad but probably true. I don’t relish watching failure among the once great. Let’s hope for the best.

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