Good-bye AOL

January 13th, 2010 by Peter Glaeser | No Comments »

AOL is shutting down. This should really tell us something. Ten years ago they were one of the world's biggest internet service providers. Remeber the numerous free installation CDs they distributed like crazy? Some of them even built ash trays out of them. But that's another story. At some point they ...

AOL Acquires Bebo

March 13th, 2008 by Peter Glaeser | No Comments »

The second acquisition for today. AOL buys social network Bebo for $850 mio. A real bargain compared to Microsoft's engagement in Facebook. Also this was a clever move because Bebo has made good investments in their mobile platform. Perhaps AOL can get ahead of Yahoo and Google on the mobile ...

AOL shopping around

February 8th, 2008 by Peter Glaeser | No Comments »

What do large companies do when they identify a problem and can't solve it themselves? They spend a lot of money for somebody else to do the job or acquire somebody that has done the job already. AOL seems to be in desperate need of a European affiliate network. Last year ...