BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft 'set to take AOL stake'

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft 'set to take AOL stake': "Microsoft could be about to take a stake in Time Warner's internet unit AOL, the New York Times has reported.
Microsoft hopes to merge its internet service with AOL but questions remain over how the venture would be governed.
But the software giant still faces competition for AOL from Google, News Corporation and Yahoo, the paper added.
Investors have been pushing Time Warner to boost its share price performance in recent months and a deal with Microsoft could silence the critics, experts say.
Time Warner Microsoft refused to comment on the report while AOL was unavailable. "