Nasty memories have been stirred up by this week's reports that Microsoft is in talks to buy a big stake in America Online. And why not, last time when AOL was involved in a big deal, its $150 billion acquisition of Time Warner, a media giant, in January 2000, it soon came to symbolise the madness of Internet-company valuations, during the turn-of-the-century dotcom bubble. Nobody expects Microsoft to repeat the near-suicidal folly of Time Warner. But if there is any truth to market rumours that its purchase will value AOL, now a shadow of its old self, at over $20 billion, or about $1,000 per AOL subscriber, then the deal would certainly fuel fears that irrational exuberance is returning to the pricing of Internet-related firms. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshowbnews/1242265.cms
huh just read .. bill is now worth 55.1 billion$ ... damn thats alot isnt it? .. no wonder they are buying all the big companies ... P.S: allen the other microsoft head is worth somthing like 22.6 billion$ or something .. cant rem for sure
