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AOL is $2.68B with $2.5B in revenue Yahoo should buy them, at least AOL have a new purpose that investors believe in. Yahoo's recent acquisition attempts seem
by bl4k 16y ago
AOL is $2.68B with $2.5B in revenue
Yahoo should buy them, at least AOL have a new purpose that investors believe in.
Yahoo's recent acquisition attempts seem very disparate with no real overall goal (Yelp, Foursquare, etc.) or mission.
- ianl 16y agoYou make a good point, AOL would fit more into Yahoo's perceived strategy as being a content company. Yelp, and Foursquare are great examples of the general lack of strategy or direction to those of us that follow the tech scene closely. They need to decide whether they are going to play with the big boys and solve interesting problems or continue the web1.0 style of being a landing page.
- olegkikin 16y agoAOL has insane expenses, negating all the revenues. They netted negative billion dollars in Q2 (in just one quarter!). Their revenues are steadily declining: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aolq2slide.jpg http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/aolq2slide.j... Buying AOL would be just dumb. I don't see them being profitable any time soon (if ever).
- cvg 16y agoBut most recent quarters have been positive with income in the tens of millions. Q2 had a large one time write down from restructuring. Financially, AOL isn't looking too bad: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:AOL&fstype=ii
- olegkikin 16y agoYou're right. However their margins are razor-thin in the previous quarters. Like Q4 of 2009 - net income of 1.4M (with 809M revenue). We'll see how the restructuring goes.
- bl4k 16y agoYou may be looking at the quarter where they wrote of Bebo, ICQ and a bunch of other assets