AOL-Time Warner Revisited in Time Inc-Yahoo Tie-Up?

Reuters Breakingviews: “If tragedy plus time equals comedy, what does Yahoo plus Time equal? Maybe the same thing, or worse. News that the magazine publisher is weighing a bid for the core of the $30 billion Internet company evokes memories of the disastrous combination of AOL and Time Warner. Combining print and digital may make more sense now than when the $160 billion merger was hatched in 2000, but the financial contortions certainly don’t.”