As GigaOM reported, Google announced the $625M acquisition of Postini this morning, which was not unforeseen. With Cisco’s $800M acquisition of Ironport (which was hardware-based), Symantec’s $300M acquisition of Brightmail (which channeled its services...
AOL didn’t lose 846,000 subscribers. It never had them in the first place. -Ian. —– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid04&ncids8&e=6&u=/ washpost/20030724/tc_washpost/a32817_2003jul23 AOL Subscribers Down by 846,000...
Now, I don’t know where I sit on this… laying off workers because of administration’s poor planning and lackluster leadership (note the alliteration, arts graduates!) is morally reprehensible, but is mandating that a company re-hire those people...
…yeah right. These guys will never go to jail. But AOL will go down in history as a Ponzi scheme that makes 80s Junk Bonds look like chicken feed. Actually, I found a good backgrounder on Ponzi schemes here: http://www.mark-knutson.com/thescheme.html -Ian....
Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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