In brief Yahoo! has been fingered as the latest company to woo AOL, according to reports last Friday. Associated Press reports that the online world's most famous exclamation make is in early stage reports with Time Warner about AOL. The talks are understood to be less advanced than those Time Warner is already in with Microsoft, Google and Comcast. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is already understood to have made its excuses and left.

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