AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
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Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons
Interesting comment from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968476
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#3Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#4At one time, AOL had a market cap of $200B
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/how-aol-dominated-the-intern...
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#5At one time, AOL had a market cap of $200B https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/how-aol-dominated-the-intern...
When Verizon sold it and Yahoo, they were sold for less than 2% of their peak market cap
https://www.axios.com/2021/05/04/verizon-aol-yahoo-valuation...
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending_Spoons Interesting comment from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38968476
So companies go there to die
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#7what does AOL even do these days? genuinely curious.
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#8This podcast episode has a couple of guests from that company. Recommend to whoever interested in this company: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule...
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#9what does AOL even do these days? genuinely curious.
I wasn't even aware they were still around until a couple of days ago I received an email from an aol.com domain. Best bet is they're just a dead mall.
Re: AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B
#10what does AOL even do these days? genuinely curious.
It wasn't until the end of last month that they finally turned off dialup:
https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discont...
And I have people in my contacts whose active email ends in "@aol.com".