Yahoo And AOL, Microsoft And Time Warner Subjects Of Latest Merger/Buyout Gossip

Yahoo And AOL, Microsoft And Time Warner Subjects Of Latest Merger/Buyout Gossip

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negotiations with each other broke down, sources familiar with the companies' thinking said on Wednesday.

Microsoft -- rebuffed this year in efforts to buy all of Yahoo and then just its search business -- is talking about alternative deals with Time Warner Inc, which owns AOL, and News Corp, parent of MySpace, a source close to Microsoft said, but any negotiations remain in preliminary stages.

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