http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2008/03/24/beboaol-brilliant-stroke-or-going-for-broke/ The Catalyst Code Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:38:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2008/03/24/beboaol-brilliant-stroke-or-going-for-broke/#comment-372 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:13:02 +0000 http://www.thecatalystcode.com/theconversation/blog/2008/03/24/beboaol-brilliant-stroke-or-going-for-broke/#comment-372 In the business world, AOL is both an irrelevance and old-fashioned; to the point where if I get an email from an AOL account, I think 'dinosaur'! For the young and trendy (at least in the UK) AOL is also a million miles from cool. Therefore, without any clear synergistic benefits or business rationale for the combine, the only explanation is DESPERATION on the half of AOL. And the fact that Times Warner has allowed AOL to spend $0.9bn on the acquisition shows how worried they are that AOL no longer has any value. In the business world, AOL is both an irrelevance and old-fashioned; to the point where if I get an email from an AOL account, I think ‘dinosaur’! For the young and trendy (at least in the UK) AOL is also a million miles from cool. Therefore, without any clear synergistic benefits or business rationale for the combine, the only explanation is DESPERATION on the half of AOL. And the fact that Times Warner has allowed AOL to spend $0.9bn on the acquisition shows how worried they are that AOL no longer has any value.

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