$4.4 Billion is the equivalent of 7.3 Trillion free hours of AOL service via promotional cd-rom.
Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
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#52AOL in a big media deal, Clinton running for office, stocks at all time highs. What's not to love about 2000.
Which Clinton was running in 2000?
Not the same office as she is now, but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_...
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
With 4G broadband this is going to become irrelevant very quickly.
4G is generally available in rural areas?
I don't even have cellphone coverage at my house in West Virginia. No voice, no text, no bars. Not with AT$T, Verizon, or Sprint.
Now coverage maps, AT$T says they have 3g but I get no service at my house, Sprint Map is spot on, and Verizon map I haven't compared.
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#54so what happens to the digital prophet??
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honest question: why do you say luckily?
No the commenter you're asking, but I've never had a constructive conversation with "those types" - the kind who go out of their way to talk about getting laid off from a tech company. Of all the ones I've spoken with, it followed the pattern of "BigCo outsourced jobs to those darn Foreigners, and I got laid off, and it will happen to you too!". In particular I worked with a former DBA for IBM at a grocery store in h…
> probably lower skilled workers can take your job, you probably suck
More probably these decisions are made at a very high level and the individual abilities of these workers aren't even taken into consideration. The real lessons here are never trust your employer, loyalty is a two-way street and always have an exit plan.
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#56so what happens to the digital prophet??
I think Shingy will replace the "can you hear me now?" guy.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recently, a woman that I shared an elevator with commented on my laptop - she noticed that I worked at a large tech company. She commented that she too had worked for a large tech company at one time - AOL. I smiled. She then immediately recounted the day she and her entire floor were laid off unceremoniously. Luckily, that was about the time that we reached her floor.
I too worked for AOL at one time, after they bought Netscape who happened to be my employer at the time. I very quickly took a severance option they were offering. There were also plenty of developers that fell under the iPlanet umbrella working for Sun/Netscape that later felt the axe. Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.
>Don't think that everyone who worked at AOL were a bunch of "you've got mail!" chatroom admins.
Who in this community would think that??
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#58Today I learned that WhatsApp is 5 times more valuable than AOL - and I never understood either of these companies' market..
Interesting though - that company 'felt' like a giant when I seriously got into using the web and although the article seems to imply that the operations of AOL continue (using the AOL brand?) it's fascinating to see such a company being swallowed.
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#59Re: Verizon to Buy AOL for $4.4B
#60AOL in a big media deal, Clinton running for office, stocks at all time highs. What's not to love about 2000.
Plagiarism still going strong too!