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Yahoo quer AOL
Uma fonte da Yahoo, no entanto, negou tal aproximação.
No ano passado, o site de buscas Google comprou 5% de participação na America
Online, por US$ 1 bilhão. O acordo previa que, em julho de 2008, o Google
poderia requisitar uma oferta pública de suas ações da AOL. Nesse caso, a Time
Warner teria a opção de comprar de volta as ações da AOL em dinheiro ou ações,
segundo o acordo.
Segundo a "Fortune", se a AOL recusar o negócio, o presidente da Yahoo, Terry
Semel, teria outras aquisições em vista, e cita os rumores de que a empresa
teria planos de comprar o site americano de contatos pessoais Facebook.com.
Semel poderia, inclusive, vender a Yahoo, diz o texto.
A Yahoo procura, assim, fazer frente aos movimentos do site de buscas Google em
conquistar espaço na internet - principalmente no segmento de anúncios on-line.
O Google comprou o site de vídeos digitais YouTube por US$ 1,65 bilhão, segundo
o "The Wall Street Journal".
Já a AOL anunciou neste mês o corte de 1.300 funcionários nos EUA, devido ao
fechamento de call centers. Em setembro, a empresa passou a oferecer cinco
gigabytes de espaço de e-mail gratuitos, na tentativa de minimizar a perda de
clientes.
Em pouco mais de um ano, a AOL perdeu cerca de três milhões de assinantes e tem
hoje pouco menos de 18 milhões de clientes. Em seu melhor momento, no ano de
2002, a AOL acumulava 27 milhões de assinantes.
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 CORFU TRAGEDY MUM BRINGS HER
CHILDREN HOME
 Emily
Nash In Corfu
SHARON Wood tonight brought home to Britain the bodies of her two young children
who were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning in Corfu.
The flight carrying Robert Shepherd, six, and his sister Christianne, seven,
landed at Manchester Airport shortly before 5pm. Mrs Wood, 35, had flown home on
the same three and a half hour flight.
Yesterday she visited the Corfu chalet where her two little children died.. her
face unable to hide the unbearable pain as she looked through the window.
Sharon, 35, earlier visited a chapel in Corfu Town where their bodies were laid.
A friend said: "She couldn't stop crying."
Clutching her husband Paul, Sharon spent a 40 minute-vigil in a candlelit Chapel
of Rest recalling the brief lives of adored Robert Shepherd, six, and his sister
Christianne, seven.
Then, her face etched with pain and her legs buckling in grief, she was helped
to her car. A family friend said later: "You can imagine the state she was in,
she couldn't stop crying.
"She wanted to be with the children as much as possible. She wants to be with
them every step of the way home."
It was Sharon's second agonising visit to her dead loved ones. On Saturday she
identified their bodies at a morgue before briefly visiting the holiday chalet
on Corfu where they were poisoned by gas from a suspected faulty boiler.
Wearing dark trousers, a white blouse and Chanel sunglasses Sharon, 35, arrived
at Corfu Town cemetery in a silver Jeep.
She walked slowly past rows of white marble tombstones shaded by trees to the
Chapel of Rest guarded by police and embassy officials.
Inside, the bodies of Robert and Christianne were laid out surrounded by candles
and flowers. The children, who were taken to the mortuary wearing their
nightclothes, were in new outfits.
Dance teacher Sharon, of Wakefield, West Yorks, hopes to leave the island with
the youngsters at 3.30pm today once paperwork had been completed.
Robert and Christianne were found dead in bungalow B112 at the Louis Corcyra
Beach Hotel, Gouvia, on Thursday. They were in the arms of their unconscious
father Neil, 38. Neil's partner Ruth Beatson, 27, lay unconscious nearby.
Yesterday Neil, who still does not know his children are dead, regained full
consciousness for the first time.
Ioannis Manzaropolous, director of Corfu Town Hospital, said a family member
would break the grim news only when doctors believed he was ready.
Neil is still in extreme shock. Last night floral tributes lay outside his home
in Horbury, West Yorks.
Ruth, who has been able to speak to her parents Helen and Stephen, was told of
the tragedy by her mother.
She is in shock and being supported by an English-speaking psychologist after
being moved out of intensive care.
An English nurse is at the hospital to help care for the couple, who are both
expected to make a full recovery.
Helen said yesterday: "Ruth and Neil are progressing very well. We're very glad.
There's nothing more we want to say."
Pathologist Theodore Vouyouklais confirmed "high levels" of carbon monoxide were
found in the children's blood.
The gas is believed to have leaked through a hole left between B112's boiler
room and the next door bungalow when an air conditioning unit was installed.
Reports of the boiler leaking have not been confirmed.
There is also speculation the family may have died after closing the windows to
protect against mosquitoes and using the air conditioning.
A moving memorial service was held at the Anglican Holy Trinity Church, in Corfu
Town, yesterday.
After prayers for the victims and a minute's silence, the Rev Clifford Owen said:
"The death of a child is one of the hardest things to bear in this life. The
future can never be the same again."
emily.nash@mirror.co.uk
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