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The investor Warren Buffett, or at least his animated character, will star in a Web series on AOL in the fall.

After the much-heralded 'merger of the century' seemingly became the worst merger in history, the cable giant will separate AOL into an independent company.

Not so eager to make a deal with Microsoft, Yahoo has been talking with Google, NewsCorp and AOL about various partnerships.

Lisa Napoli reports that there's a big reason for all this back and forth.