Why do I have the feeling that we (the public) aren't the real target for these posts? This all has the feel of a giant power-play within AOL that we are only one side of.
I know that this is TechCrunch, but do we really have to be exposed to the drama that is normally reserved for office politics? Or is this all just an attempt to give Arrington, et al. cover for when this whole thing just blows up?
Or, it could all be for the pageviews... has it been a slow news month?
It's obviously not a pageview drive... This is making AOL look really bad, so if it's a pageview drive AOL is stupid. Especially because of the post MG wrote last night which sounded very honest and blunt.
AOL's accumulated profit over its entire existence (pre-merger, merged, and post-merger) is negative $1.1 billion, counting realized and unrealized losses. They haven't made money at all yet.
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Why do I have the feeling that we (the public) aren't the real target for these posts? This all has the feel of a giant power-play within AOL that we are only one side of.
I know that this is TechCrunch, but do we really have to be exposed to the drama that is normally reserved for office politics? Or is this all just an attempt to give Arrington, et al. cover for when this whole thing just blows up?
Or, it could all be for the pageviews... has it been a slow news month?
I would become a lot more suspicious of this being a pageview drive if Arriana replied using huffingtonpost.com
It's obviously not a pageview drive... This is making AOL look really bad, so if it's a pageview drive AOL is stupid. Especially because of the post MG wrote last night which sounded very honest and blunt.
AOL has been making money hand-over-fist while being the brunt of insults for 10 years now - this wouldn't be the first time.
AOL's accumulated profit over its entire existence (pre-merger, merged, and post-merger) is negative $1.1 billion, counting realized and unrealized losses. They haven't made money at all yet.
A (falling) ~10% profit margin and -8.40% year-on-year revenue growth isn't really making money "hand-over-fist"
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AOL+Key+Statistics