Microsoft And Time Warner Joining Forces Against Google
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Time Warner and Microsoft are in negotiations to combine their advertising related assets in order to take on Google. It is said to be a no money deal and strictly to leverage both of their assets to knock Google out of the top spot in online advertising.
Word should come down before the en of the year.
The Journal said that, under negotiations between Time Warner and Microsoft, AOL would drop Google as its main Internet search provider and switch to Microsoft's MSN service.Under their current agreement, Google derived about 11 percent of its first-half revenue from AOL, which also generates substantial revenue from the contract.
The Journal said Microsoft and Time Warner are also negotiating to create a joint advertising sales force to sell online ads across both the AOL unit and Microsoft's MSN. Both services would remain under the control of their current owners, according to the report.
If this comes to fruition Microsoft would start out with quite a large network to sell advertisers on when choosing where to display ads. It could give their Pay Per Click business a much needed jump-start.
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Despite Microsoft trying to tie up with AOL (Time Warner) for this deal, i dont feel it's going to affect Google too much.
So much so i feel AOL is making a big mistake. Microsoft is just trying to get into too much, to make up for its falling revenue and market reputation over the years.
Google is a force to reckon with, and it will be that way for a long time to come, becuase they value ideas, are fast to implement, have a great team and are a very dynamic company.
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