Comments on: Yahoo rumored to be in AOL talks

The Wall Street Journal says negotiations are under way on a deal to merge the two companies' Internet operations.

[Dead Soulman]

Wasn't the AOL merger what killed the Warner stock? Now they're going to try it again killing whatever it's left of Yahoo.

[JCPayne]

Yes.... And wasn't AOL and Time Warner merged because their crazed shareholders expect companies to turn profits too fast???? MUCH like how Yahoo and Microsoft shareholders want them to merge even though most of their business overlaps and would likely just lead to mass-confusion and a two companies trying to fit their parts together esp. when they don't really fit together.... Yahoo-Microsoft would be another AOL-Time Warner or G4-TechTV merger all over again. It'll crumble within months.

[dadsgravy]

Mmmmm... Goes together like peanuts and poop!

[Bill Thielman]

This sounds a LOT like the 2002 merger of Compaq/HP. "Fits like a zipper" was what former CEO Fiorina said. She was completely wrong, of course, and it took nearly five years for the integration of the two companies. The business overlaps were - and still are, to some extent - that HP still makes heavy use of the Compaq logo, and hasn't been able to handle the wildly different corporate cultures of the two. Mark Hurd had to make a lot of tough decisions to finish the integration, after the mess that Fiorina made. BTW, heard on the news that she may be on the list of McCain's possible running mate. EWWWWW!