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              | Date: 1999-01-28 
 
 Heute angesagt: Yahoo schnupft Geocities-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.-
 
 Wenn es denn wahr wird, was der Industry Standard vorab
 erfahren haben will, dann wird Yahoo in ein paar Stunden
 Geocities inhalieren. Letztgenannte Hoster von Homepages
 sind mit fast drei Milliarden Dollar auf dem Markte
 kapitalisiert, an beiden hält der japanische Grossinvestor
 Softbank schon jeweils 29 Prozent.
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 Jim Evans
 Yahoo Thursday morning will hold a conference call with
 analysts to disclose an agreement to acquire GeoCities,
 sources say.
 
 Terms weren't immediately available. Santa Monica, Calif.-
 based GeoCities has a current market capitalization of about
 $2.4 billion.
 
 The deal would combine the leading Internet portal with the
 largest home-page hosting community. Both companies are
 backed by Softbank; the Japanese holding company owns
 about 29 percent of both Yahoo and GeoCities. Investment
 firm CMG owns 30.9 percent of GeoCities.
 
 The news comes just weeks after Yahoo made a serious bid
 to buy Excite. Excite instead chose to partner with AtHome
 in a deal currently worth over $7 billion. Yahoo had also been
 in the running to acquire Netscape, which accepted a bid
 from America Online.
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 full text
 http://www.thestandard.net/articles/display/0,1449,3300,00.html?IDG.net
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 published on: 1999-01-28
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