AOL wants to be bought
It’s no secret that AOL has been languishing in obscurity for the past couple of years. The once great ISP, search, and mobile content giant has been replaced by cheaper (read: free), faster, and more impressive offerings. The company has held on to a faint shred of profitability and dignity, maintaining independence while they strip away and outsource their offerings. The pain, it seems, is about to end. AOL has officially announced that they’re on the market and open to offers of partnership and/or acquisition. According to AOL CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, the company is open to “whatever configuration makes it the strongest and the most valuable.” Ok. We suggest ritual suicide, as we are hard pressed to come up with a company that could actually benefit from the purchase of AOL.
On Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:05 pm, Randy Said:
AOL’s demise came with the mass adoption of broadband over Dial-up connections. They were basically a content delivery mechanism then and still is now though their mostly redundant since every movie/actor/artist has a webpage somewhere.
I was AOL customer ~15 years ago (wow, that long ago?!?) I Smartened up when I “discovered” PPP and quickly realized that AOL was the Internet on training wheels. Eventually the wheels had to come off….
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 12:53 pm, Galvatron Said:
indeed aan aols clintware is spyware in discuis imo it wrees havioc on your settings an registry
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 1:28 pm, Monsieur Fantastic Said:
Ill bid a dollar … That’s it
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 3:06 pm, Christopher Cox Said:
@Galvatron
WHAT???
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 3:34 pm, thelostsoul Said:
A google purchase of AOL would better their gtalk application as they could possibly merge the databases as they did with Blogger, though that would be incredibly complicated.
I don’t see Google having much a use for anything else of AOL’s, though their content could help them. And I think it looks like Google would have the most to gain (though very little) from an AOL purchase than anyone else…perhaps a partnership of some sort would be better….
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 7:42 pm, glenn Said:
without any sarcastic comments.. what’s the actual purchase value of aol? does anyone know?
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On Mar 12, 2008 @ 9:25 pm, Kunikos Said:
I suggest to the Time Warner execs that it’s time for AOL’s euthanasia.
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On Mar 13, 2008 @ 4:04 am, Christopher Cox Said:
Seriously AOL content is stale, it was yesterday and nobody cares about it anymore. There is absolutely nothing on AOL content was that can’t be found on another more organized web site somewhere. The moment web pages and online content became a mass market comodity where everyone and their momma has one, was the day AOL started going down the tubes. For me, back in the day, AOL was the best and easiest way to get content, and much of that content was not found easily on the broader Internet or not available at all. Those days are now gone, and AOL has absolutely nothing in todays time.
AOL has content that another company would want? Highly unlikely. The only thing AOL has to offer is AIM and possibly parental control software.
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On Mar 13, 2008 @ 5:11 pm, oakie Said:
i say AOL be given death by 1000 cuts instead of seppuku.
and cut them with those dreaded AOL discs of the past.
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