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The Penny Drops on AOL…

Wow. I think it’s possible that the “three unnamed transactions” included the purchase of eVoice and our friends at InfoInterActive. The main concern from the SEC’s perspective is the accounting of these purchases as expenses, and the reporting...

RealNames Goes titsup.com

RealNames is the company that attempted to usurp DNS by embedding their keyword mapping tool into Microsoft Internet Explorer, and of course selling those keywords (as does AOL) to unfortunate web site owners who couldn’t afford the prices EJW wanted to charge...

AOL scaling back IM interoperability

Begin forwarded message: > From: “Jim Whitehead” > Date: Tue Jul 23, 2002 01:27:06 PM US/Pacific > To: “FoRK” > Subject: AOL scaling back IM interoperability > > I suppose the main surprise here is that AOL is coming clean at > all. After >...

AOL’s In Trouble…

AOL’s funky capitalization of what I believe are operating expenses — specifically, the cost of customer acquisition have raised eyebrows for years. But have they really reformed their ways? I don’t think so. Neither do some analysts. Interestingly,...

Email..

More Than An In-Box May 6, 2002 http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020502S0011   E-Mail is moving to a broader business purpose By Tony Kontzer   Eric Rohy didn’t want to be disrespectful, but he can only be away from his E-mail for so long. The meeting...