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Google Wants Out of AOL Investment
- jacquesm 18y agohow is that for double speak ? "AOL remains an extremely valued partner, and we’ll continue to work closely together to provide their users with the best search experience possible. After careful consideration, we made the decision that we needed to exercise our rights now so we could be in a position to sell our interest when the timing made sense for us.” The language twists that publicly traded companies go through in order to express themselves are really tiring. The plain text translation of that to me reads: "We don't want to kill you outright in public but we're tired of you and because the market is contracting we'd like to get out while the getting out is good. Also we'd like you very much to not switch to a competitor once we've ditched you."