OT Google Agrees to Pay $1 Bln for 5% Stake in AOL, Person Says

Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the world's most-used Internet
search engine, agreed to pay $1 billion for 5 percent of Time Warner
Inc.'s America Online unit, shutting out rival bidder Microsoft Corp.,
said a person familiar with the discussions.

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aGZkEN48j8gw>

That's interesting, last I heard Microsoft was more interested. I think
google made a good choice, AOL is a big part of the internet IMO.

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In article <1134798628.585389.20070@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Learning Richard" <learningrichard@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., the world's most-used Internet
> search engine, agreed to pay $1 billion for 5 percent of Time Warner
> Inc.'s America Online unit, shutting out rival bidder Microsoft Corp.,
> said a person familiar with the discussions.
>
> <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aGZkEN48j8gw>[/color]

from what I've seen of google and if I had made an intitial investment
which gained me 300 percent, at this moment I'd be running as fast as I
could for the door to cash it all in.
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