Every so often, Consumerist likes to check in with AOL, our ’90s onramp to the information superhighway that somehow still exists and has been working to remake itself as a media company. While sites like the Huffington Post and TechCrunch bring hundreds of millions of people to ad-supported stories and videos, AOL still makes tens of millions of dollars from their classic business model of collecting subscription fees for Internet access.
Internet pioneers Yahoo and AOL are changing hands yet again as Verizon is selling its Verizon Media branch for about $5 billion
One of the lab's first projects is for Time Inc and Sports Illustrated.
Next week's November issue of ELLE will now feature AR.
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
You see these people everyday and don't know it...
The only good thing I got out of AOL was those free CD cases I used for my photo CDs. The AOL installation discs, of course, were promptly thrown away.
Really amazing
Best business ever (75% of its users are not even using it for accessing the internet, according to the article)