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- cjung89, on 08/08/2008, -2/+34Reader beware, this list isn't numbered.
- naterpoke, on 08/09/2008, -0/+15this is interesting for people who aren't dependant on numbers to understand an article.
- peaceninja, on 08/09/2008, -0/+11(1) Sprint and Nextel
(2) eBay and Skype
(3) AOL and Time Warner
(4) Qwest and U.S. West
(5) Google and AOL - drjekelmrhyde, on 08/09/2008, -0/+96. Google and YouTube in two years
- schoepsMS, on 08/09/2008, -3/+8Numberd or not, this is a poorly written article.
- aserer511, on 08/09/2008, -1/+6Lol qwest. They went no where very, very quickly.
- werries, on 08/09/2008, -0/+4jar jar? Seriously?!
Please, die in a fire. - datagod, on 08/09/2008, -0/+4How about the AOL account I purchased back in 1995? (left me scarred for life)
- chadell, on 08/09/2008, -0/+3Great companies also have a long and gallant history of
failing. AMC's Gremlin was a big flop, but paved the way for
ever-popular hatchbacks. What about New York City's World Trade
Center, one of the first "cities in a building," remained
half-empty for almost a whole decade. There are many famous
failed computers, including Apple's Lisa and Newton or the Palm
Pilot's predecessor, Zoomer - evidence that failures breed
innovations rather than stifling them. Not all business
failures are so glorious. 65 out 100 business startups vanish
without a trace within five years and 90% are gone within ten
years. But we need these failures - without them there would no
companies to survive.
source: How to make mistakes - http://mpelembe.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/4 ... - manstein01, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2Time Warner's total write downs totaled 99 billion back in the dot-com crash. And yet even they don't compare to our federal government.
- ObamaWins08, on 08/09/2008, -1/+3Heck even I know not to invest in AOL...
- SPRFRKR, on 08/09/2008, -0/+2As was reported at the time of purchase and even in the articles being put out now, it was done as a defensive measure against MSFT from gaining a large market share by buying into AOL. Agreed, poor decision in hindsight, but it wasn't like they just invested in AOL because of a fundamental analysis.
- bipolarruledout, on 08/10/2008, -0/+2Consolidation is damaging this country and it only looks like it's getting worse. Perhaps the biggest problem is that it's killing innovation. Now is the time when we should be bringing alternative energy into the forefront among other things. Not only do we need it but it's also a great opportunity to stimulate the economy which could use some help right now. One day the US could wake up and find that we have taken for granted our technological leads since the cold war for far too long.
- kalleanka, on 08/09/2008, -0/+1Wait I don't understand... I looked and looked but can't find any numbers on the article.
- inactive, on 08/09/2008, -4/+5imagine that. aol is worthless. the people at google responsible for that 5 percent stake in aol should be canned. it amazed the dumbass things "smart people" do.
- BooLag, on 04/23/2009, -0/+0actually that was boss nass
- marc54, on 08/09/2008, -1/+1Buried! NEXT for the sole purpose of loading more spam.
- inactive, on 08/09/2008, -0/+0In order to really qualify as a screwed up buy there has to be irrerepable damage to the purchaser, the AOL loss to Google is peanuts at best no more significant than typical losses for a company that size on R&D projects that fail to bare fruit.
Much better example would be the Gigapixel acquisition made by 3DFx, money they could ill afford to squander. - gaqua, on 08/09/2008, -1/+1What about the @Home "merger" with Excite.com around 99/2000? Billions and billions of dollars down the drain....
- nbhaohao, on 08/10/2008, -1/+0Wait I don't understand... I looked and looked but can't
http://www.021jipiao.org/shdbjtjjp.htm
http://www.021jipiao.org/shdsztjjp.htm
http://www.021jipiao.org/shdxntjjp.htm - mikeon1510, on 08/09/2008, -3/+2Wow ! Some of those figures are mindblowing ! How dumb can some companies be ?
- DeceasedVirus, on 08/09/2008, -3/+1As much as I hate AOL and their Bloatware. . . I must say that I WAS a happy user of X-Drive, Google Buy that!
- maximallimit, on 08/09/2008, -5/+2Well done...but as cjung89 said it is a bit confusing
- chetanthaker, on 08/09/2008, -6/+2Err, the $999.99 iPhone app should be on the list ??
- BooLag, on 04/23/2009, -20/+1Yousa no think yousa better than the guuungans?
Meeeeeeeesa liiiike that!!
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