bgguy Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Verizon buying AOL for $4.4B. http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/12/verizon-aol-4-4b/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffDTD Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 More mobile video news and entertainment? Yawn. Nothing eats my data bucket quicker than streaming video on Verizon LTE. Hopefully there are some valuable patents being acquired here. The AOL name is dead to millenials and all I think about when I think of AOL is the sound of an old dial up modem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiWavelength Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 The AOL name is dead to millenials and all I think about when I think of AOL is the sound of an old dial up modem I am not so sure about that. I encounter a fair number of Millenials and/or their parents who still use their AOL e-mail accounts. AOL is what introduced them to e-mail, and it is the only address they have ever had. AJ 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffDTD Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 That makes me sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigmachine Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 This deal is probably more about the brands and content producers under the AOL umbrella than the AOL brand itself. Think: Huffington Post, Engadget, Moviefone, Stylelist, etc. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbolen Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 How many floppies can you buy for $4.4Bn? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacinJosh Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I am not so sure about that. I encounter a fair number of Millenials and/or their parents who still use their AOL e-mail accounts. AOL is what introduced them to e-mail, and it is the only address they have ever had. AJ I still have aol email addresses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbolen Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I still have aol email addresses. I only have one for the Sprint 25% corporate AOL/Time Warner employee discount. I can probably kiss that goodbye now, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacinJosh Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I only have one for the Sprint 25% corporate AOL/Time Warner employee discount. I can probably kiss that goodbye now, eh? I lost my 25% discount when I got my iPhone 5S on Easy Pay. So yeah, you will probably lose it too. Sent from Josh's iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbolen Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 I lost my 25% discount when I got my iPhone 5S on Easy Pay. So yeah, you will probably lose it too. Sent from Josh's iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk I still have an employee discount with my current company… It's only 19%, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilotimz Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 If people are dumb enough to still be paying for AOL (like dial up) then presumably to Verizon these people will be dumb enough to keep paying Verizon (after they buy aol) while Vzw provides practically no service to them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacinJosh Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 If people are dumb enough to still be paying for AOL (like dial up) then presumably to Verizon these people will be dumb enough to keep paying Verizon (after they buy aol) while Vzw provides practically no service to them. Last I checked, AOL dial up was $24.95. Verizon will most likely up the rate to $29.95 to 39.95/mo. Let's call it, the Verizon Premium! Sent from Josh's iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gusherb Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 My dad was paying AOL 24.95 a month for a good 8 years after they got DSL. As soon as I found out about it I cancelled it. What a waste that was! I still have and use my aol email address but have been transitioning to Gmail at a glacial pace. I see no point in dropping it all together cold turkey cuz it's worked for me all these years, continues to work, and I only view emails on my phone anyway so the web interface doesn't matter to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cortney Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 (edited) Last I checked, AOL dial up was $24.95. Verizon will most likely up the rate to $29.95 to 39.95/mo. Let's call it, the Verizon Premium! Sent from Josh's iPhone 6+ using Tapatalk A big red check, and it has to be good (or so the average American thinks)! Even though Verizon will probably figure out a way to compromise people's e-mail, security and remaining AOL "service" and make them pay for everything imaginable. This deal is probably more about the brands and content producers under the AOL umbrella than the AOL brand itself. Think: Huffington Post, Engadget, Moviefone, Stylelist, etc. Very true. Then we'd have Magenda and whatever you want to call Verizon Agenda or Red Agenda. "Verizon news, vNews (wtfe), only $0.89 per click" Edited May 12, 2015 by cortney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshnys8913 Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Seems like all companies want to buy every other company anymore lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_M_G Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 ah the good ole days of the AOL/Netscape wars... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony.spina97 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I still have and use my aol email address but have been transitioning to Gmail at a glacial pace. I see no point in dropping it all together cold turkey cuz it's worked for me all these years, continues to work, and I only view emails on my phone anyway so the web interface doesn't matter to me. I am in this exact same position. No sense getting rid of it since it all comes through my phone anyways. -Anthony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbolen Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 By the Numbers: AOL then and now With its stock inflated by dot-com mania, AOL was worth $224 billion in today’s money back in 2000, just before it launched an audacious, expensive, and ill-fated bid to combine with Time Warner. Nothing about AOL today is on the same scale as back then. In a neat bit of symmetry, the $4.4 billion price tag that Verizon is paying to buy the whole of AOL today is the exact same amount as the company’s dial-up subscription revenue in the year 2000. (Which would nonetheless be worth more now, $6 billion, after adjusting for inflation.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_M_G Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Ha I remember dial up and the free cd-roms that AOL was always sending out...yes I'm that old...I also remember buying my first house and finding out I was just inside the area for DSL and jumped on it right away...then came cable and I laughed when ATT tried to get me to stay on DSL where I was lucky to get 768kbps down while my shiny new Cox modem was a blistering 3Mbps. Last I checked my home cable is pushing 50Mbps since I don't feel the need to jump to a premium tier for higher. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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