Quotes about aol
aol attempting business expensive outsource program relationship trying view
What I see AOL trying to do now is outsource a program that has been expensive for it to maintain. It also is attempting to monetize the relationship with senders, which I view as a business decision. Dave Lewis
aol events opportunity
This was not a big surprise. The events of Sept. 11 give ( AOL ) the opportunity to make this announcement.
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We decided after understanding what AOL would like that we were not interested, and we told them a couple days after the meeting.
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The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists. Kara Swisher
aol driver enhanced near term
The real driver of enhanced valuation is going to be AOL in the near term and the long term, Richard Parsons
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Whether they work for dot-coms, whether they own dot-coms, a lot of them work for investment companies, banks, venture capitalists, ... I can look at people's e-mail addresses and there's very few AOL or Hotmail e-mail addresses. You see Price Waterhouse addresses and Andersen consulting e-mail addresses.
aol business model wrong
Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search. Jason Calacanis
aol challenges controls joint time ventures
There are challenges in joint ventures about who controls what. AOL has had some challenges cross-selling with Time Warner.
aol happens poor
What happens to poor AOL if it can't do what it did to dissuade?
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There are lots of lessons to learn from Amazon. Never stop innovating or questioning the fundamentals of your business. Disrupt yourself before others do. Continually motivate employees so that they never get too complacent - see Yahoo, AOL and many other Internet companies for evidence of what happens when they do.
aol compete expand expect markets remaining time trials
While this is unexpected, it indicates that AOL is remaining technologically agnostic. But I wouldn't expect AOL, if they expand DSL trials further, to compete in the same markets as Time Warner.
aol compared dangerous email height late levels low reaching remained spam volume
While the volume of spam reaching AOL email inboxes has remained at low levels compared to it's height in late 2003, the spam that's out there is more insidious, crafty, devious, and dangerous than ever. Charles Stiles
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The interest that's being shown in AOL right now is a testament to the fact that there aren't any other Web addresses out there that have that kind of power and command that many eyeballs.
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These talks ultimately became about music and broke down over an issue that isn't about AOL and Microsoft but Microsoft's determination to control digital music on the Internet.
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This is just another in a long series of companies which are raising public money to pay AOL and Yahoo, who end up being the real winners, ... If this company goes public, it will definitely prove my theory that fund managers in general do not read prospectuses.
aol calming ceo gang happens market matter
No matter what happens (incoming AOL CEO Richard) Parsons and gang are going to concentrate on calming market expectations. Period.
aol care people seem
It's very frustrating. People don't seem to care much about this AOL deal.
aol era excesses fairly last looking marks media people top value
It will put a short-term top on the stock. I think it marks the end of an era -- the last remnant of excesses and looking at fundamentals through rose-colored glasses. Now people are going to look at AOL and value it as a media conglomerate and find it's fairly valued.
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It won't reduce spam directly. AOL is already good at managing spam issues, and Yahoo is getting better. It may make it easier to filter mail, and may provide more resources for spam prevention, but it could also mean that people lose emails, and so change provider. Richard Cox
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Isn't it true that the most important factor for AOL in choosing Internet Explorer was getting software that worked well with AOL's client software?
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When you look at Viacom and AOL Time Warner, their cash flow being generated by their businesses has enabled them to reduce debt and to focus on their businesses.
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We believe AOL and Time Warner are in the final stages of gaining approval from U.S. and Europe regulatory commissions. We do expect any concessions that would materially impact future performance. Henry Blodget
aol beyond bold boom change content everybody global internet itself power provider remember saying true
This is the true power of the Internet being demonstrated. You remember how in 1999 and 2000 during the dot-com boom everybody was saying the Internet would change the world? Well, here it comes. We are on the verge, and AOL is positioning itself to become a global content provider that expands well beyond its U.S. roots. It's a bold strategy.
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This is yet another example of how AOL is becoming a company that's all about broadband. There's no question that all the forecasts point to the dial-up subscriber count decreasing in the next few years. AOL understands that.
aol hard pushed sign
I really think that AOL is going to have to be pushed real hard to sign on to this.
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Internet Explorer has to be the default browser, ... To the extent that we can promote Netscape within the AOL environment, it has to be in a low-profile area.
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If your friend is on AOL, and you want to IM with that friend, then you need to be on AOL too. The interoperability between MSN and Yahoo will not change that. Both MSN and Yahoo acknowledge that their users would like interoperability with AOL, but there are no public plans for that at present,
aol driver enhanced neither short source term value
In my view, the real source of undervaluation is neither of these things, ... The real driver of enhanced value, I think, is going to be AOL in the short term and the long term.
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I don't know if guidance is going to get much lower for AOL, but it still looks like it's kind of in a death spiral, ... If things are still deteriorating at AOL by late this summer, people are going to wonder whether or not Parsons can fix it as well. W. S. Gilbert
aol fund level risk tempted
I'm tempted by AOL here, but I don't have it in the fund I manage. The risk level is very high.
aol generate greater price subscriber surprised thrilled tried
I'm surprised to see them doing it. I don't know if I'm thrilled with it. While it would make them more price competitive and generate greater subscriber growth, I think they tried to be an AOL before and failed,
aol chat love loved message remember social
I really do love social media. I've always been crazy about - even like, remember AOL chat rooms? I always loved message boards, and I was always interacting on the computer. Chrissy Teigen
aol balance company earnings fall following fox good hit huge job managing nicely release revenue year
They've done a good job of managing the release schedule. What the company has done is balance it out very nicely so you don't have a huge hit to earnings from the fall off in revenue following a blockbuster. The year after Fox had Titanic, it had nothing. We'll see how long AOL can keep this going. Nobody's ever done it forever.