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When it releases its second-quarter numbers Wednesday, Time Warner will also announce it's ready to dump AOL's dialup business. A combination of modem banks, CD-ROM mailers, and ruthless telemarketers which introduced America to the information superhighway in the 1990s, AOL's ISP business still has more than 8 million subscribers who pay through the nose for a quaintly overpriced service. What will be left: A collection of websites and an online-advertising business that has yet to get advertisers to pay anything even vaguely overpriced. Time Warner has flirted with Yahoo and Microsoft for years, but hasn't yet sealed a deal to get rid of AOL, the business which, on paper, acquired Time Warner at the turn of the millennium.But Microsoft and Yahoo, both looking ofr more heft, are still in talks to buy AOL. Once the separation — mostly "a bookkeeping exercise," reports the Wall Street Journal — is complete, selling off the advertising business should prove easier. Discussions with Yahoo are "the more advanced of the two," says a source who describes the deal as one that would combine AOL and Yahoo and give Time Warner a $10 billion stake in the company. It's a proposal AOL and Yahoo began discussing in April. Whether or not a deal is consummated, the fact that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is still considering it just shows how much pressure he's under from shareholders, even after last week's subdued shareholder meeting.