News - Latest Yahoo acquisition rumour involves AOL

[HEXUS]

The WSJ reports on an AOL/private equity cunning plan, prompting a flurry of speculation.

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[Tpyo]

Typo police. Name irony unintentional.

Late last week we had the NYT-propagated rumour that Microsoft might be thinking of buying Microsoft, which led to a spike in Adobe's share price but was soon dismissed by sources of rival WSJ.

and

Liverpool fans will be more familiar than most of them ever expected to be with this kind of deal.

[Scott B]

Typo police. Name irony unintentional.

Late last week we had the NYT-propagated rumour that Microsoft might be thinking of buying Microsoft, which led to a spike in Adobe's share price but was soon dismissed by sources of rival WSJ.

and

Liverpool fans will be more familiar than most of them ever expected to be with this kind of deal.

Thanks Tpyo, first one corrected but the second one wasn't a typo - maybe just crap English. What I was trying to convey is the assumption that the average football fan presumably doesn't spend a lot of time thinking about leveraged buy-outs.

Having said that, a knowledge of business, law an economics is becoming an increasingly important part of the football fan's arsenal (pun intended).