Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that while at a meeting with about a dozen senior members of AOL's staff yesterday, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes left at least one member of management with the impression that the company is for sale, a source close to the company said:

"Another person who attended the same meeting says Jeff did not say specifically that the company is for sale but merely said that 'everyone is talking to everyone' and that AOL might someday be sold (i.e., that nothing has really changed)."

The report said that regardless of what Bewkes said, a rapid sale wouldn't be surprising given the reports of Yahoo-AOL and Microsoft-AOL talks in recent weeks.