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    News - AOL to write-off $850 million Bebo acquisition

    The Internet giant is selling-off the mobile networking site for a tiny fraction of what it paid for it.
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    Re: News - AOL to write-off $850 million Bebo acquisition

    Perhaps the money saved from not producing those dreaded AOL discs has saved them here.

    It does amaze me that AOL are still going. They somehow have more money than sense it would seem.

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    Re: News - AOL to write-off $850 million Bebo acquisition

    Quote Originally Posted by AGTDenton View Post
    Perhaps the money saved from not producing those dreaded AOL discs has saved them here.

    It does amaze me that AOL are still going. They somehow have more money than sense it would seem.
    I think AOLs days are numbered in this world. Once the all singing power of ISP's, I remember when it was pretty much them and Compuserve in the UK back in the early 90's.

    AOL has failed to move with the times and keep up with what the consumer wants and can get else where.

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    Re: News - AOL to write-off $850 million Bebo acquisition

    Damn I remember AOL, that horrible blue browser you needed to start up first.

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    Re: News - AOL to write-off $850 million Bebo acquisition

    Quote Originally Posted by AGTDenton View Post
    Perhaps the money saved from not producing those dreaded AOL discs has saved them here.

    It does amaze me that AOL are still going. They somehow have more money than sense it would seem.
    My guess is that the Time Warner merger helped a lot - since that's now been reversed, we might see it start to gradually fade away.

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