InJuly, Time Warner seemed to think that letting Yahoo have AOL in return for a stake was a good idea. That drifted past in the microsft / Yahoo / Google war, but there are again rumors that Carl Icahn is pushing for an AOL acquisition.
Some even seem to think that the merger would reopen the Microsoft offer, as a YahAOL would be more attractive and put a bigger dent in the Yahoogle partnership.
Of course, then it would be MicrAOLhoo, and this is just getting ridiculous. They’re definitely going to have to come up with some smoother acronyms.
Of course, everyone declines to comment, so sources have to be satisfied with the Financial Times assurance that the Yahoo board meeting (the first since Icahn’s installment on the board) included a decision to open up talks with AOL on the subject of a possible acquisition.