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		AOL stock surges after investors forget that, as they are trying to make money, it is best to avoid AOL. Follow-up tag barely beats Sick tag due to the first greenlight on this story (money.cnn.com)		27
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Snarcoleptic_Hoosier		2012-04-09 01:08:44 PM

So, the stock price goes up after selling patents to Microsoft - a feat that is not going to be repeated and only provides a temporary boost in revenue.

/Sounds good to me

cman		2012-04-09 01:16:46 PM

I should have done a better job on this headline. I am not to thrilled about it.

/Subs

ecmoRandomNumbers		2012-04-09 02:11:37 PM

But look at this irresistible format and content! How DO they do it?

MrBigglesworth		2012-04-09 02:40:12 PM

Puzzling, a one time sell off with a spike of $1B income. OK, what next.......anyone? Bueller?

Lost Thought 00		2012-04-09 02:54:46 PM

So basically investors are assuming that the rest of AOL will now be aquired by someone, since they have no valuable assets left.

downstairs		2012-04-09 03:01:57 PM

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: So, the stock price goes up after selling patents to Microsoft - a feat that is not going to be repeated and only provides a temporary boost in revenue.

/Sounds good to me

Exactly. From all assumptions- and I would personally assume if looking to invest- is that they're not using this $1 billion to re-build a healthy buisness. Are they? It seems like a fire sale to me.

jayhawk88		2012-04-09 03:02:58 PM

ecmoRandomNumbers: But look at this irresistible format and content! How DO they do it?

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It's like Yahoo, only shiattier!

Quiefenburger		2012-04-09 03:06:13 PM

JoeJitsu		2012-04-09 03:13:47 PM

In other news, the captain of the Titanic is reported to be confident the ship will be saved because one of the stewards found four buckets in a mop closet that can be used for bailing.

mongbiohazard		2012-04-09 03:21:39 PM

Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: So, the stock price goes up after selling patents to Microsoft - a feat that is not going to be repeated and only provides a temporary boost in revenue.

/Sounds good to me

I know, right? Who are these fools? It's stories like this that illustrate the futility of our hour by hour stock price obsession. Very soon that stock price will plummet back down - probably below where it was before.

nucal		2012-04-09 03:23:51 PM

There are worse internet business models than the current version of AOL - and the mobile version for email access is actually pretty decent.

Larofeticus		2012-04-09 03:41:00 PM

Calm down. Nobody thinks AOL has any sort of future. The stock price is only going up because people are buying to close out their intelligent shorts.

FinFangFark		2012-04-09 04:01:28 PM

Guys, don't spoil the new for me...my page is still loading.

Damn dial-up.

Kuta		2012-04-09 04:11:02 PM

So AOL is now considered a penny stock?

palelizard		2012-04-09 05:28:25 PM

cman: I should have done a better job on this headline. I am not to thrilled about it.

/Subs

Maybe something about mailing CDs?

"AOL sells patents for $1B, swears this time, everyone on the planet is getting a trial CD."

BumpInTheNight		2012-04-09 05:59:01 PM

I'm certain their remaining customer is thrilled.

Geotpf		2012-04-09 06:00:04 PM

My understanding is that AOL is no longer really "AOL"; instead, they own a bunch of websites and a banner ad advertising network. Thing is, none of their websites (other than The Huffington Post) are anything anybody has ever heard of, and their advertising network is way behind the network run by Google (and perhaps others).

carnifex2005		2012-04-09 06:01:19 PM

cman: I should have done a better job on this headline. I am not to thrilled about it.

/Subs

Jimmyboy		2012-04-09 06:24:06 PM

There are 2 people in my office that actually still use AOL, still amazes me everytime they turn it on.

skinink		2012-04-09 06:59:12 PM

Hmm. I wonder if the @netscape.net email I still have is worth anything.

Those were the days, when I thought Netscape would be around forever.

rogue49		2012-04-09 07:26:39 PM

That reminds me, it's been awhile since I used a DVD as a coaster...

mongbiohazard		2012-04-09 08:05:08 PM

rogue49: That reminds me, it's been awhile since I used a DVD as a coaster...

When I was in my late teens/early 20's I used old AOL CD's - and any other junk CD-ROM's or music CD's I could get my hands on - to mirror the ceiling in my bedroom.

Satanic_Hamster		2012-04-09 08:31:14 PM

mongbiohazard: rogue49: That reminds me, it's been awhile since I used a DVD as a coaster...

When I was in my late teens/early 20's I used old AOL CD's - and any other junk CD-ROM's or music CD's I could get my hands on - to mirror the ceiling in my bedroom.

I used to take them out to the shooting range in Jefferson National Forrest and shoot them.

bingethinker		2012-04-09 09:15:52 PM

Fools! I took all my money out of AOL and put it into buggy whip futures.

marcre3363		2012-04-09 11:09:21 PM

Idiots. I sold off all my AOL stock and invested them in Thomas Kincade portraits.

AcneVulgaris		2012-04-10 12:16:29 AM

You' ve got fail!

Ed Willy		2012-04-10 03:31:02 AM

downstairs: Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: So, the stock price goes up after selling patents to Microsoft - a feat that is not going to be repeated and only provides a temporary boost in revenue.

/Sounds good to me

Exactly. From all assumptions- and I would personally assume if looking to invest- is that they're not using this $1 billion to re-build a healthy buisness. Are they? It seems like a fire sale to me.

I know they just launched a site called Mandatory, a men's site, and they bought Hufifngton Post. And they are killing AIM.

Basically they are dumping off a lot of the old stuff and going straight to being a content portal. This would have been a lot more helpful had they developed toward this during the AOL-Time Warner days and given Time Warner some value.

AOL might yet survive in a new format. They will probably sink the money into acquisitions of other sites and build a web-based media empire.

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