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  1. Re:Quick question by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 1 · on AOL Desktops On New PCs
    AOL Time Warner, the parent company of AOL, is based in New York. The AOL service is still based in Dulles.

    See the AOL Time Warner press fact sheet and America Online company info page

    It's very common for large companies to have their corporate parent headquarters in one place and their subsidiary company's headquarters in other places.

  2. Re:Quick question by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 1 · on AOL Desktops On New PCs
    AOL Time Warner, the parent company of AOL, is based in New York. The AOL service is still based in Dulles.

    See the AOL Time Warner press fact sheet and America Online company info page

    It's very common for large companies to have their corporate parent headquarters in one place and their subsidiary company's headquarters in other places.

  3. Name something AOL doesn't have a stake in... by kaiidth · · Score: 4 · on AOL Invests $100M In Amazon
    AOL-Time Warner have interesting business habits... in the last couple of months, their assimilation's been looking like this:

    • Online music and Internet radio
    • Partner with Bertelsmann AG, EMI, and RealNetworks for MusicNet
    • A bunch of other usual suspect movie studios like Universal Pictures, who basically have to pay AOL-Time Warner for advertising airtime (although of course they're associated with Vivendi which probably means they have power all to their own)
    • Books- AOL have $100 million in Amazon...
    • Advertising- they're the US's second-largest advertiser, apparently.
    • Truly awful television (Popstars 2 out this fall)
    • Cisco, Swatch and Oxygen (marketing alliances)
    • Magazine publishing (UK publisher IPC acquired for 1.1 billion UKP)
    • EarthLink high-speed cable, Juno and High Speed Access on their broadband systems...
    • The subscription video-on-demand market in Columbia, SC (with HBO)
    • Grab the set-top box market with AOLTV/TiVo(TM)
    • Oh, and a bunch of US magazines, obviously
    • Your local supermarket (over 12,000 retail outlets have apparently signed distribution agreements to promote AOL... including Wal-Mart...)
    • There's even an AOL mobile service...
    • A strategic alliance with Sony for the PlayStation 2 (so you can use Instant Messenger, if it ever actually works)
    • Chinese top computer maker Legend (joint venture)
    • and a whole bunch of other stuff, including sponsoring Madonna's latest world tour...

    But then, their financial report for the second quarter of '01 claims that they're intending to "expand agressively", and see themselves as "The world's first internet-powered media and communications company, whose industry-leading businesses include interactive services, cable systems, publishing, music, networks and filmed entertainment".

    Oh, apparently AOL 7.0 will offer a new level of convenience, ease of use and other marketdroid speak that will make the service "central to members' lives". Can't wait.

    What, no Linux version? Darn. Looks like I'll have to after all.

  4. Re:Why Sony? by funkman · · Score: 2 · on Sony and AOL vs Microsoft
    Because AOL is working with Dell to get AOL into every classroom in Pennsylvania at "no expense" to the school. By buying a DELL computer - the school gets a version of AOL for the classroom for "free".

    <FLAMBAIT like comment>
    Just like cigarettes, get 'em hooked (on AOL) while young and those who do don't know better will stay hooked. </FLAMBAIT like comment>

  5. Re:History Repeats itself by SgtPepper · · Score: 3 · on 3Com Spinning Off US Robotics

    can't wait for aoltimewarner.com

    You know, i couldn't resist, sure 'nuf, it's a site...aoltimewarner.com Coming soon... The World's First Media and Communications Company for the Internet Age

    Gotta love it ;)