This deal comes 6 months after AOL (an experienced tech player, mind you) sells Bebo for about $10m rather than the $850m it spent to acquire it. The context is

This deal comes 6 months after AOL (an experienced tech player, mind you) sells Bebo for about $10m rather than the $850m it spent to acquire it. The context is markedly different, of course, notably since Facebook was the reason for the collapsed value over at Bebo.