Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion

[JordanWearinThe45]

AOL, Engadget's parent company, has just been acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion, or around $50 a share. The carrier believes that a tie-in between the two businesses will boost Big Red's online video and content strategy. AOL itself, far from just being the name on all those discarded dial-up internet CDs, is also a player in the online ad business -- and has developed several behind-the-scenes products for marketers.

In an email to employees, AOL chief Tim Armstrong pledges that the deal will create "the best media technology company in the world." It appears that AOL will be run as a separate division within the business, but using Verizon's distribution channels to widely circulate content from its brands, including TechCrunch and The Huffington Post.


Verizon will also distribute AOL's video shows onto its mobile and internet-based video channels, much like it already does with content sourced from the NFL. It's also easy to presume that both will also work with the company's forthcoming web TV service that it rescued from the flames of Intel's doomed OnCue project.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/12/verizon-buys-aol/

Had no clue AOL was worth that much

 

[Strike-Wun]

You'd be surprised at how many people still use their email service

 

[Heretic]

You'd be surprised at how many people still use their email service

I have an aol address that I use but it's not my main one or my second choice.

 

[Kaypain]

I haven't seen AOL since those Dial-Up trial cards sent in the mail

 

[Will McLean]

My mom still uses her AOL email

 

[ll_simon]

Last time I heard of em they were giving away 2000 free hours

 

[King Sun]

I sitll use my aol addy

 

[Brooklynzson]

My mom still uses her AOL email

My pops does too

fukk them though, they emptied out all the emails from one of my email accounts i had since 2000. mad pics and saved emails lost

 

[ThiefyPoo]

My pops does too

fukk them though, they emptied out all the emails from one of my email accounts i had since 2000. mad pics and saved emails lost

Lost nudes huh

 

[Brooklynzson]

Lost nudes huh

All kind of shyt.

 

[Dat Migo]

My grandma still uses AOL dial-up

 

[beenz]

at aol in 2015.

time warner really swindeled verizon on that deal. and for the rube's that use them for email, that segment of the population is dying off. not getting larger.

 

[the cool]

I used to think aol was the Internet

 

[dwindleswindle]

Dem AOL chatrooms though were the realness

 

[duckbutta]

This is going to give verizon control of virtually ever email a person 45 and up has...

Back in my home pc tech days I used to push them aol disk on old folks with the quicknes...

Alright miss Kelson you want to get on the internet here put this disk in...

Had me out here slanging that poison killing my people

Lord forgive me

One of my aunts was asking me if i could get her email back with one of those aol disk after she got a new pc...

It might not have even been 2000 yet when i installed that shyt on her pc