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VentureBeat: AOL shutters Tacoda, mergers customers into low-end Ad.com

  • Remote Control · 1 year ago
    From the moment they bought Tacoda, Linda Clarizio was unhappy. Unhappy not to be made the boss of Platform A, afraid that Bewkes liked Viebranz more than her (he did and does) and almost crapped in her shorts when the suggestion was made to dump Ad.com because of its low rates. Now that she has killed Tacoda (and all of the people who came with it) she should be much happier (and the TW shareholders much sader).
  • Adam Metz · 1 year ago
    Well, I guess this explains why Dave Morgan didn't feel compelled to respond to my "I Will Smack the Next Person That Calls Behavioral Targeting Creepy" post last week.

    So long, and better luck in your next contradictory venture, guys.
  • bill finerman · 1 year ago
    um, you may have jumped the gun, dude. check out the excellent piece on paid content. they actually tracked down clarizio.
  • Henry Spitzer · 1 year ago
    Well, here's another $275M AOL Genius management has flushed down the sh#*tter. Every week that goes by gives more evidence Clarizio, Grant and Falco are clueless. Is there ANY doubt that Bewkes is still blind with rage over the inane AOL-TW merger of 2000? His Henny Youngman's "Take my wife....PLEASE" version with AOL is another example of throwing out the baby with the bath water. Bewkes will probably pay Earthlink to take the dial-up business and whatever deal they make for the rest of AOL will look like the deals the banks have been making to unload their bad mortgage paper....25 cents on the dollar. How much was AOL valued at the time of the merger compared to the sub $10B they HOPE to get today? Can anyone total up the the combined losses of shareholder value due to T-W incompetent management since 2000? How much did they write off/down, pay in SEC fines? How about all the businesses they have bought and TANKED...such as Netscape (remember when they had 80% of the browser market?), and recently Third Screen, Tacoda, Userplane, Bebo....their corporate failure list reads like the rap sheet of a career criminal!
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