Excite@Home Corp has strongly denied reports that it is in talks to merge with Yahoo Inc. President George Bell has said that there is: No truth to the story that Yahoo offered more than Excite@Home’s market valuation of $17bn for what would have been the industry’s biggest merger so far. We have been in talks with AOL, Yahoo and lots of folks about our start page, but there is no truth to the rumors of acquisition discussions reported in Business Week, Bell told reporters at the BancBoston Robertson Stephens conference in San Francisco. He added that his company is exploring ways to monetize the @Home start page by getting companies to pay for links from it to services of their own.
