http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080807/how-much-for-aol-not-so-much-fun-with-numbers/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080807/how-much-for-aol-not-so-much-fun-with-numbers/#comment-4724 Yahoo and AOL: Like Two Louts Merging to Make One Cretin | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:01:19 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2490#comment-4724 [...] considering recent history. AOL+Compuserve = FAIL. AOL+Netscape = FAIL. AOL+Time Warner = FAIL. AOL+Yahoo? Print [...] [...] considering recent history. AOL+Compuserve = FAIL. AOL+Netscape = FAIL. AOL+Time Warner = FAIL. AOL+Yahoo? Print [...]

]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080807/how-much-for-aol-not-so-much-fun-with-numbers/#comment-3920 Google Declares the Obvious: AOL’s Not Worth $20 Billion–But What’s Next? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:29:50 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2490#comment-3920 [...] and coincidentally, in a piece about AOL’s downward valuation and its negative implications on its ability to sell itse..., which was published yesterday before the Google essentially wrote off a lot of its AOL investment, [...] [...] and coincidentally, in a piece about AOL’s downward valuation and its negative implications on its ability to sell itse…, which was published yesterday before the Google essentially wrote off a lot of its AOL investment, [...]

]]> http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080807/how-much-for-aol-not-so-much-fun-with-numbers/#comment-3917 Henry Spitzer Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:22:36 +0000 http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2490#comment-3917 Hi Kara- I for one, would love to see you write an updated profile of how AOL and T-W have trashed billions of shareholder cash and equity on companies they bought at inflated prices and then tanked those companies within months. Grant, Falco, Clarizio and Bewkes run off the senior management of the acquired companies and then claim they "integrated" them into AOL. A closer look will show that is nothing more than a sham answer. Look what is happening with Bebo, what happened with Tacoda, Quigo, ThirdScreen, Netscape....the list goes on. The only exception has been Advertising.com that was Clarizio's baby. She handled the purchase, pushed out the senior management, set herself up as the CEO and now has pushed out all of the AOL management that made AOL successful in favor of her Advertising.com buddies. I find it hard to believe why ATD & the WSJ do not report this sort of information in a way that holds up management to scrutiny and accountability. Management continues to make these stunning blunders and then laughs all the way to the bank with multi-million dollar paydays. Now it fire sale time for AOL, taking the final T-W bow and a ream job on the sale price. How much was AOL valued at back in 2000, at the time of the merger? $200B Today, yours for only $10B...do I hear $8B? Hi Kara-
I for one, would love to see you write an updated profile of how AOL and T-W have trashed billions of shareholder cash and equity on companies they bought at inflated prices and then tanked those companies within months. Grant, Falco, Clarizio and Bewkes run off the senior management of the acquired companies and then claim they “integrated” them into AOL. A closer look will show that is nothing more than a sham answer. Look what is happening with Bebo, what happened with Tacoda, Quigo, ThirdScreen, Netscape….the list goes on. The only exception has been Advertising.com that was Clarizio’s baby. She handled the purchase, pushed out the senior management, set herself up as the CEO and now has pushed out all of the AOL management that made AOL successful in favor of her Advertising.com buddies. I find it hard to believe why ATD & the WSJ do not report this sort of information in a way that holds up management to scrutiny and accountability. Management continues to make these stunning blunders and then laughs all the way to the bank with multi-million dollar paydays. Now it fire sale time for AOL, taking the final T-W bow and a ream job on the sale price. How much was AOL valued at back in 2000, at the time of the merger? $200B Today, yours for only $10B…do I hear $8B?

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