Rob A
Same Old Jets
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join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | Oh please...
just let aol die |
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jfmezei
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join:2007-01-03
Beaconsfield, QC
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| I never understood why anyone in the press glorified AOL. They were succesful in the dead end dial-up business. They cajoled Wall Street Casino Analysts into thinking they were an advertising juggernaut, and even convinced gullible Time/Warner to buy them.
But AOL never had a future to those who understand the internet.
Since AOL is on a downward curve and will become totally irrelevant in a few years, only a fool would invest in it.
a few years ago, Yahoo, appararently under pressure from religious extremists in the USA, destroyed a whole bunch of sex related forums. They did so without warning, without explanation and also destroyed the user accounts for the owners of those forums. This was done very unprofessionally and I for one am not surprised to see Yahoo lose value.
Meanwhile Google setup its own forums that allow pictures to be stored, whereas Yahoo doesn't. So not only does Yahoo have an inferior forum system, but they can also go and kill any forum without any warning and any opportunity for the owner to save the contents.
I see Yahoo as just running on leftover steam. Really not sure what they want to do with that property. If they are really consideruing a merger with AOL to be "inspiring", then the Yahoo management are far worse than I could have imagined. |
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| "and (AOL) even convinced gullible Time/Warner to buy them."
This is a common mis-conception these days.
Actually, AOL *bought* Time-Warner.
If you look at charts of todays TWX stock symbol the data pre-2000 is of the 'AOL' ticker. Orginal TW ticker symbol ended at acquisition/merger. Merged company was renamed "AOL Time-Warner" and then changed again back to just Time-Warner (when stock ticker changed to TWX).
Ongoing executive clashes defeated any merger synergies from day one of the merger. TW exec's where given reigns again after Case left after being blamed for dot.com share price plummet and tarnished corporate image. TW-bred execs have had no clue for years what to do to give AOL a future beyond selling advertising (a market they know from magazines & TV). |
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