AOL Shareholders Upset Over Exec Departures
By TechCrunch : By Alexia Tsotsis An inordinate amount of business deals with telling stories about the future. The reason Yahoo’s ( YHOO ) market cap is down to $19.83 billion from a high of $55...
View ArticleAOL-Huffington Post Merger: Another Future Disaster?
Albert Babayev submits: AOL is all too familiar with lousy deals. Almost 11 years after AOL ( AOL ) merged with Time Warner ( TWX ), the company created some buzz with its announcement to acquire The...
View ArticleAnything In AOL Besides That $5.15 Dividend?
By Dana Blankenhorn : AOL ( AOL ) has been on fire the last two days, sitting at near $42/share as this was written. The reason is simple: The company will pay a special dividend of $5.15/share. Even...
View ArticleAOL Looking to Impact Social Media Market With Huffington Post Acquisition
Trefis submits: AOL ( AOL ) recently acquired Huffington Post for $315 million, which is another one in the series of acquisitions that AOL has done since its spin-off with Time Warner ( TWX ) in...
View ArticleVringo Prevails Over AOL, Google Could Be Next
By John H. Ford : Vringo ( VRNG ) shares just became a lot more valuable. AOL ( AOL ) agreed to settle with Vringo for patent infringement. This is the first validation of Vringo patents, and the...
View ArticleAOL: The Hail Mary Pass Of 2013
By Alex Cho : Introduction AOL Inc. ( AOL ) is a diversified service company on the web, known for their Time Warner merger fiasco. After the reverse merger, AOL has come back strong, and is showing...
View ArticleAOL Still Not Out Of The Woods
By Dana Blankenhorn : AOL ( AOL ) is suddenly a hot stock. The company reported growth for the first time in years in its latest quarterly report, for the period ending in December, and CEO Tim...
View ArticleBuy AOL: 2013 Will Be A Pivotal Year
By Helix Investment Management : For years, AOL ( AOL ) has been synonymous with the destruction of shareholder value. Its status as perhaps the worst merger in corporate history (based on the amount...
View ArticleRevenue Growth Is Key For AOL
By Nick Chiu : AOL Inc. ( AOL ), with a market cap of $3.02B, is a global web services company with a range of brands. It provides online content, products, and services to consumers, publishers, and...
View ArticleAOL Needs To Ramp Revenues Fast And MagicJack Can Fill The Void
By Tufenk : When AOL ( AOL ) reported its latest quarterly earnings on May 8th, its stock took a plunge of 10% and Foxbusiness reported: Shares closed Friday May 10th at $39.06, recovering some of the...
View ArticleYahoo - Using The AOL Playbook For A 30% Gain In 2013
By Benedict Tubuo (Beevest) : It has been a while since Yahoo Inc. ( YHOO ) and AOL Inc. ( AOL ) were considered prominent digital media companies. AOL deteriorated so fast that its name seemed like an...
View ArticleAOL Shareholders Upset Over Exec Departures
By TechCrunch : By Alexia Tsotsis An inordinate amount of business deals with telling stories about the future. The reason Yahoo’s ( YHOO ) market cap is down to $19.83 billion from a high of $55...
View ArticleWhy Adding AOL To Your Portfolio Can Prove A Great Decision
By Elisa Lemmola : AOL (NYSE: AOL ) has been struggling to find its footing since the breakup of its famously troubled merger with Time Warner in December 2009. The company has been reducing staff,...
View ArticleThe HuffPo Deal: One More Reason Why AOL Will Succeed While Yahoo Will Fail
Intelligent Speculator submits: AOL ( AOL ) and Yahoo ( YHOO ) are similar companies in many ways -- few of them positive. Both are original dot.com companies that once were leaders in their fields...
View ArticleAOL May Regret Distributing $1.1 Billion To Shareholders
By Chad Brand : Calls for the death of AOL (NYSE: AOL ) have been premature and CEO Tim Armstrong deserves a lot of credit for not only getting the stock up to a new post-AOL Time Warner high at $34...
View ArticleAOL's Tim Armstrong Is The Matt Leinart Of The Internet
By Dana Blankenhorn : In football it's called "happy feet," a quarterback with a great arm who stands in the pocket too long, bouncing on his feet, fearing a sack, until he gets sacked. Matt Leinart...
View ArticleAOL Plus HuffPost, Is Demand Media Next?
Robert H. Heath submits: Last Sunday, AOL ( AOL ) announced the acquisition of the Huffington Post for $315 million. The acquisition is right in line with the strategy Armstrong has articulated for...
View ArticleAOL: Is Huffington Post Acquisition a Good Entry Point for Investors?
Benzinga submits: By Gary Cassady As Benzinga readers already know, in an attempt to revamp the company, AOL ( AOL ) will purchase The Huffington Post for $315 million. In 2010, AOL suffered a 26% hit...
View ArticleNew York Times' Paywall Could Benefit AOL
Trefis submits: Since its spin-off from Time Warner ( TWX ) in December 2009, AOL ( AOL ) has pushed forward with a variety of strategic initiatives to resurrect its struggling business. These...
View ArticleAOL ([[AOL]] -0.1%) has made a $375M-$425M offer to buy online video ad tech...
AOL ( AOL -0.1% ) has made a $375M-$425M offer to buy online video ad tech provider Adap.tv, BI sources (sometimes accurate, sometimes not) report hearing. AOL has been trying to flesh out its ad tech...
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