Time Warner Plans to Spin Off AOL
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Apr 2009 19:36 UTC, submitted by Adurbe
In the News US media giant Time Warner has said it anticipates spinning off one or more parts of AOL as advertising sales decline at the internet business. The announcement came after Time Warner posted stronger-than-expected profits and reaffirmed its full-year forecast. Net profits for the first quarter came in at USD 661m (GBP 448.8m), a fall of 14% from the USD 771m reported a year earlier. Revenue at the company, which owns Time magazine and the CNN and HBO television networks, fell by 7% to USD 6.9bn.
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by poundsmack on Wed 29th Apr 2009 20:10 UTC
poundsmack
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2005-07-13

(You see a dead horse infront of you)
/loot
/kick

Just put a bullet in AOL and be done with it. it's been a long time comming....

Though it hasn't been all bad. After all, if it wasn't for the frustration AOL 4.0 caused me I would never have come up with the name "poundsmack."

:Lore:(After trying to come up with a screen name that wasn't taken for the better part of 2 hours I became frustrated and took out my agression on my CRT monitor.The resulting sounds were combined to become my screen name and forever remind me of my struggle with the machine)...

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by ssa2204 on Wed 29th Apr 2009 20:43 UTC in reply to "..."
ssa2204 Member since:
2006-04-22

AOL are still around? God I almost forgot the still existed.

Don't we all have fond memories of these jokers who use to charge us even after cancellation? Ahh, those were the days.

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by libray on Thu 30th Apr 2009 16:04 UTC in reply to "RE: ..."
libray Member since:
2005-08-27

I thouht it was AOL that bought Time Warner. Recall, they were the company that had the cash, and now are being spun off of "AOL Time-Warner".

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by ssa2204 on Thu 30th Apr 2009 17:59 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: ..."
ssa2204 Member since:
2006-04-22

I thouht it was AOL that bought Time Warner. Recall, they were the company that had the cash, and now are being spun off of "AOL Time-Warner".


At the time I was expecting we would soon see the AOL-Time-Warner-Microsoft-GE-GM-Exxon-McDonalds company that would rule us all, or just enslave us all. You know when a business sells off like this, it always means they are taking out the garbage, and AOL certainly was garbage (and they certainly filled OUR garbage with their free floppy disks).

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by StephenBeDoper on Wed 29th Apr 2009 21:21 UTC in reply to "..."
StephenBeDoper Member since:
2005-07-06

Just put a bullet in AOL and be done with it. it's been a long time comming....


The only downside is that it would make the newsgroup alt.aol-sucks obsolete.

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What is Left of AOL?
by Macrat on Wed 29th Apr 2009 22:30 UTC
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2006-03-27

Is there anything left of AOL besides AIM?

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RE: What is Left of AOL?
by poundsmack on Wed 29th Apr 2009 23:07 UTC in reply to "What is Left of AOL?"
poundsmack Member since:
2005-07-13

Winamp
engadget.com
autoblog.com
(others)
I don't know if engadget and so on are affiliated with AOL but i do know if i scroll to the bottom of their home page it appears to be part of AOL news or in some way related.

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RE[2]: What is Left of AOL?
by -oblio- on Thu 30th Apr 2009 08:37 UTC in reply to "RE: What is Left of AOL?"
-oblio- Member since:
2008-05-27

Netscape, FWIW ;)

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RE[3]: What is Left of AOL?
by bryanv on Thu 30th Apr 2009 14:43 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: What is Left of AOL?"
bryanv Member since:
2005-08-26

obviously it's not worth much.

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Where is Steve Case today?
by bousozoku on Wed 29th Apr 2009 23:54 UTC
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2006-01-23

I wonder if he just took the money and ran after the first year. I can't say that I've seen him in a photo or press conference video since Time-Warner was having trouble making ends meet after the acquisition.

I find it amusing that they always promised grandiose things of their Mac software and then, procrastinated on delivering it. They just finally released AIM for Mac OS X, though AIM version 4.7 worked quite well.

The Yahoo! Messenger people aren't too far ahead of them. The version 3.0 beta is in its 4th year with 2 public builds each of the first three years and 1 so far in 2009, with an emergency Leopard compatibility build.

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Earlied ages of Computing
by OSGuy on Thu 30th Apr 2009 09:18 UTC
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2006-01-01

Ahh I remember clicking AOL shortcuts on my Windows 95 computer 10/11 years ago but I didn't do anything with them...I am not sure if they came preinstalled with Windows or if they were put there by the OEM.

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RE: Earlied ages of Computing
by darknexus on Thu 30th Apr 2009 09:27 UTC in reply to "Earlied ages of Computing"
darknexus Member since:
2008-07-15

Depends. A lot of OEMs did put them there, but remember the "Online Services" folder in the start menu that Windows 95 came pre-installed with? There were AOL links there too, in addition to other links for other services.

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RE[2]: Earlied ages of Computing
by OSGuy on Thu 30th Apr 2009 09:45 UTC in reply to "RE: Earlied ages of Computing"
OSGuy Member since:
2006-01-01

Ahh yes, yes! That is it. That's what I was talking about. Thanks for that.

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