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w/ bad times here and in the near future , twx is still a good pick , people will still get cable & twx has a good div. & google will be knocking on hte door to buy AOL !! so buy up some shares !

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Yahoo (YHOO) chairman Roy Bostock is suddenly a man in a hurry. Not only does he believe Yahoo will name a new CEO before 2009 -- about four weeks away -- he's also telling people that a long-discussed AOL-Yahoo merger could be completed as early as next week.

"Bostock has intimated that Yahoo was ready to do a deal at any time in the next week or so to merge with AOL-with or without a new CEO in place," Kara Swisher reports.

The final sticking point in the AOL-Yahoo merger is price, of course. Kara reports:

Yahoo has long wanted to give Time Warner about 20 percent of the merged company, whil

Corporate raider and Yahoo board member Carl Icahn just told CNBC he would vote against former AOL CEO Jon Miller's plan to buy Yahoo for $20-$22 a share with money from private equity and sovereign wealth.

"Right now, I would be against that," Icahn said, indicating he objected not to Miller running Yahoo, but Miller's price. "The stock is undervalued right now," he said.

Icahn's ideal candidate for the job? No surprises there: "A hard-nosed kind of guy," who would be willing to do a search deal.

Icahn, who told CNBC he talked to Miller over the weekend, did not bring up Miller's noncompete c

Satellite radio's biggest problem: Slowing subscriber growth, compounded by the freefalling auto industry, where most of Sirius XM's (SIRI) new customers come from, and fast-burning cash reserves. Another problem: Increasing, improving competition, such as Internet radio streams available via mobile phones.

One of Sirius's Internet radio foes is bulking up: CBS, where Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin used to work. CBS (CBS) is taking over Yahoo's (YHOO) Launchcast music service, the company announced today, and will re-launch it early next year.

MediaMemo: For CBS, this represents yet another bet t

We've been calling around about the Yahoo CEO job and here's what we're hearing. Remember, it's all just industry chatter -- scuttlebutt.

• We hear former AOL (TWX) CEO Jon Miller wants the job and is the first choice inside Yahoo. A source called him the frontrunner.
  
• Former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig -- who also wants the job -- is gaining momentum inside the halls of Yahoo.
  
• In fact, one source involved in the hunt tells us he hears Yahoo's contacting candidates for show and that the board has already decided on former COO Rosensweig.
  
• He's on headhunter firm Heidrick & Struggles's list, but forme

Remember those bizarre "hologram" effects that Time Warner's (TWX) CNN used on Election night? They're now the property of a News Corp. (NWS) joint venture.

Sports data company Stats, a joint venture of News Corp. and the AP, has acquired the "hologram" provider, Israel-based SportVU, SportBusiness reports. A Hebrew report cited by PaidContent's Rafat Ali supposedly pegs the deal in the "tens of millions of dollars" range.

Ali explains the deal:

"From a sports perspective, its technology collects positioning data of the ball and participants within the playing field in real time, and then chur