Where does AOL go from here?
Remember those little discs from America Online? You couldn’t get away from them. Sign up and get 800 billion free hours. For beginning users, and we all were at the time, America Online was the internet. AOL quickly became big enough to merge with, take over really, Time Warner. Then things went south. AOL’s fortune was built on dial-up internet service, Time Warner was built on print media, two things that just didn’t turn out to be strong pillars. So the merger died.
And today, the company, which is now called “Aol.”, officially begins a new chapter as its own company once more. What will the new/old company be?
Guest: Kara Swisher, The Wall Street Journal
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