Another possible Mega-Merger?

[Jacob]

http://www.nypost.com/business/17300.htm

According to this article Time-Warner might have someone to sell AOL to: Microsoft!

Now, I'm scared of the implications - there being essentially one uber-internet provider?

Of course there are anti-trust issues that have to be resolved before this could go through.

[Janak Parekh]

Nah. I think AOL is an albatross at this point. Come to think of it, MSN is a albatross ISPwise. Combine the two and you'd have a disaster. :lol:

--janak

[JustinGTP]

Since AOL is crap anyways, I wouldn't really care :D

[Jacob]

Well they are the two largest ISPs.

I know that Time-Warner tried to setup AOL as their corporate email provider at one point and failed miserably.

AOL and MSN have a big stronghold on the novice computer user though don't they?

[Jeff Rutledge]

Hopefully this is rumour. I'm not a fan of mega-mergers. I believe that, as companies get bigger and bigger and their reach gets wider and longer, it ultimately hurts the customer - at least in the long term.