18
Dec
05

AOL climbs into bed with Google, shuns Microsoft?

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By Paul Lomax
Categories: Internet Industry and Mergers and Acquisitions

The Register reports that Google have snatched AOL from Microsoft, paying $1 billion (£570m) to take a 5 per cent stake.

One word: Phew. Very glad it was Google and not Microsoft…

Interestingly for us (IPC), the deal means that “AOL’s sales team gets access to the Google Network, and Google will also give Time Warner’s media properties preferential treatment.”. Cool - we should therefore get preferential treatment as a Time Warner property :)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/17/google_wins_aol/

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Paul LomaxPaul Lomax is Head of New Media for the Guardian Media Group's Regional Division and divides his time between London and Manchester in the UK. He's a former entrepreneur, a technologist and an experienced general manager and has been a digital professional for well over ten years.

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