No One Willing To Pay Very Much For AOL
from the raise-your-prices dept
With all the rumors swirling around in the last few months about Google, Yahoo or Microsoft possibly buying AOL, we decided to purposely ignore the rumor that came out last night saying that Microsoft was close to a deal to team up for advertising. Until something is official, it's not really worth commenting on. However, what is worth commenting on is AOL's Richard Parsons' assertion that: "We are not interested in selling AOL." For those of you prone to taking execs like at their word, we figured we'd help out with our nifty translation service: Techdirt's "what they really mean." So, when Parsons says that "we are not interested in selling AOL," what he really means is "no one offered enough to us for AOL, and since it doesn't seem like anyone's going any higher yet (quick, bid now!) we may just have to do a partnership instead (unless you bid a lot more, quickly!)."
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No One Wants AOL
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There's no money to be made without all the craptacular ads.
You'd be taking a huge loss.
You'd be better off inheriting AOL then opensourcing AIM. Whoever created AOL dies, you get AOL, you opensource AOL, Everyone wins.
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I might need to talk to my Grandmother again about putting effort into learning how to use a separate email and web client.
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