Who Buys The New York Times Company (NYT)? – Google Inc (GOOG), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN)

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Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) might also be interested in The New York Times. With its push into the tablet space with its Kindle device, the company has to provide a distinctive advantage to customers over competing products from Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung, among others. Having exclusive or heavily discounted content from the Times would be a notable feature.

While this may seem like a bad fit at first, note that Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is creating original content for its streaming video service. Thus, it is hardly against creating content. And adding The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) would be a big feather in Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s cap.

Not every web merger works

Of course it’s important to note that marrying old world properties with Internet properties doesn’t always work out well. The biggest example of such a merger flop is the ill-fated Time Warner and American Online combo. Eventually, Time Warner jettisoned AOL (NYSE:AOL).

Still, both Google Inc (GOOG) and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) would be great suitors that would probably do right by both the company’s image, its customers, and its controlling owners.

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