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Is Microsoft On the Verge of Buying AOL Stake Under the Nose of Google?

As Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Are Both Launched This Week, Speculation Grows
By Jeremy Geelan
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November 7, 2005 10:30 PM EST
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A report in The New York Times yesterday suggests that "Microsoft has emerged as the front-runner in the talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online."

"When Time Warner released its quarterly earnings last Wednesday," the Times reports, "its chairman and chief executive, Richard Parsons, for the first time acknowledged the talks but tried to dampen expectations."

In the most important part of the report, the newspaper's Richard Siklos writes:

"Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, said last week in a meeting with reporters and editors at The New York Times that his interest in AOL is about playing a greater role in the future of advertising."
The newspaper did not have any further news on whether Google, which provides the Web search on AOL's services, and manages the advertising related to it, has made any further progress in its own talks with AOL Time Warner about taking a stake in America Online.

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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