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Maneki Neko posted:RIP Shingy when did Sonic turn so emo
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ProfessorBooty posted:I still remember my ICQ number from 1998. Oops, I thought it was ICQ as well as AIM, sorry for being wrong, turns out it was hotmail. I was still half right.
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Maneki Neko posted:RIP Shingy quote:Next, Shingy stopped by the office of Erika Nardini, the chief marketing officer of AOL Advertising, and handed her an iPad Mini. “Wanted to show you a little brain fart I had on the plane,” he said. It was a cartoon he had drawn of a bear wearing zebra-print pants and a shirt covered in ones and zeros. He gets paid six figures for this. Three Olives fucked around with this message at 20:47 on May 12, 2015 |
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Three Olives posted:He get's paid six figures for this. He seems to be a genius who has combined cold reading, doodling, and technobabble to make $$$. A veritable goon hero.
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bloodysabbath posted:Would be bad enough, but they paid two. Two billion. I know "the kids" love Minecraft, but how the good goddamn hell they recoup that, I have no idea. i think minecraft makes a lot off of merchandising. 2.5 bil still seems like a lot tho
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Three Olives posted:Twitter makes lots and lots of money, over $2 billion dollars a year. It's just that they are burning through it like a drunk prostitute. I'm not really quite sure how the manage to piss away so much money though, it's not like they have a super complicated operation. they make 1.5 billion dollars last year but somehow ended with a loss of 500,000 lol, probably investing in retarded poo poo and booking poo poo so they dont have to pay taxes
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Scalding Coffee posted:I remember when Net Neutrality was all about keeping government from doing the same thing. never, you mean you're dumb
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Three Olives posted:Twitter makes lots and lots of money, over $2 billion dollars a year. It's just that they are burning through it like a drunk prostitute. I'm not really quite sure how the manage to piss away so much money though, it's not like they have a super complicated operation. have you been in their office? their perks are top-notch. they also pay entry-level employees $125K salary, so I can only imagine what more senior people there make
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Fetus Tree posted:AOL owns a lot of stuff and does more than just dialup you loving retards yeah this AOL's advertising brings in triple the revenue that their subscriptions do
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Roargasm posted:yeah this AOL's advertising brings in triple the revenue that their subscriptions do Cool, so with that VZ's investment should pay off in.... 932 years
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May 12, 2015 21:36
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Three Olives posted:He gets paid six figures for this. Kevin Spacey talks for ten minutes while Shingy looks like a thrown out muppet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUNNZ6avig
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bloodysabbath posted:Would be bad enough, but they paid two. Two billion. I know "the kids" love Minecraft, but how the good goddamn hell they recoup that, I have no idea. Good way to burn up "stuck" overseas cash!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmpDSBAh6RYZassiliss posted:Uh it's AMERICA online idiot I thought it was AMERICAN INLINE.
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Pauline Kael posted:OK obvious financial wizard Fetus Tree, please share with the thread the double top secret properties that AOL owns that make it worth $4.4b. Hell, I'll make it easy on you, come up with $2b of plausible value and we'll call it a win for you well it generates $600m/annually in ad revenue alone
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May 12, 2015 22:54
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Fetus Tree posted:well it generates $600m/annually in ad revenue alone revenue != profits though
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Moridin920 posted:revenue != profits though 1) 4.4 billion is chump change to verizon. AT&T is about to drop almost 50 billion to buy direct tv. 2) The plan is two fold A) content distribution via mobile device and B) mobile ad sales just because you guys view AOL is your grandmothers internet service doesn't mean you're right. i'm not going to post all the reasons this could work out for verizon, go read the wall street journal yourselves or some poo poo.
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Fetus Tree posted:1) 4.4 billion is chump change to verizon. AT&T is about to drop almost 50 billion to buy direct tv. Eh I'm not actually railing against it at all in terms of a business decision (I just said I think Twitter is probably not worth what it is valued at currently) - just that there's a tech bubble going on right now for sure. I kind of don't like how everything is just merging though and the SEC is apparently nonexistent except for the occasional ridiculously huge merger. Most of these telecomms companies already have monopolies in their respective areas (especially the ISPs and cable companies); I feel like they could use some breaking up. 
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Moridin920 posted:Eh I'm not actually railing against it at all in terms of a business decision (I just said I think Twitter is probably not worth what it is valued at currently) - just that there's a tech bubble going on right now for sure. yes to an extent but right now mobile advertising is a 70bil/year industry and that number is not likely to go down for a long, long time, and really twitter/fb/all that poo poo is valued at its ability to shove advertisements in your face
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ProfessorBooty posted:I still remember my ICQ number from 1998. they're all dead 
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Three Olives posted:He gets paid six figures for this. You missed the most lol quote from that article quote:Among Shingy’s achievements is the coining of the phrase HoMo
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Fetus Tree posted:1) 4.4 billion is chump change to verizon. AT&T is about to drop almost 50 billion to buy direct tv. wsj is filled with retards why would i read their stupid bullshit
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fetus tree get out
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In all seriousness this probably isn't a completely dumb thing, the carriers and broadband networks are desperately trying not to be "dumb pipes" and to do that they need content now that it looks like some form of net neutrality is here to stay. AOL produces a shitload of original content including video regardless of if you value it or not. If I had to guess in a year or two you will see Verizon deploying multicast LTE with a sizable on device cache on your phone and shoving AOL produced content down your throat. I'm sorry, "adding value" to what would otherwise be a commodity product.
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I was genuinely baffled by this news and thought that AOL had disappeared a while ago. I can't be the only one.
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Three Olives posted:If I had to guess in a year or two you will see Verizon deploying multicast LTE with a sizable on device cache on your phone and shoving AOL produced content down your throat. I'm sorry, "adding value" to what would otherwise be a commodity product. that is literally the plan yes also lol @ people getting mad because im not stupid enough to think i know better than the people at verizon
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has anybody said this was a good thing because your dumb and beyond human being
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When does Netscape get scooped up? Compuserve?
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Crazy Ted posted:When does Netscape get scooped up? Compuserve? aol bought netscape years ago
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Nonsense posted:has anybody said this was a good thing because your dumb and beyond human being its a good thing for verizon
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Fetus Tree posted:its a good thing for verizon no it is not good for verizon to buy a company at the center of one of the worst mergers in the history of human commerce.
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not even the east india company was worst
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Nonsense posted:no it is not good for verizon to buy a company at the center of one of the worst mergers in the history of human commerce. you talking about aol/TW?
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Fetus Tree posted:you talking about aol/TW? no doobies dogs and robert space industries
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Nonsense posted:no doobies dogs and robert space industries that isnt going to happen again and this is going to be, at worst, a mediocre investment for VZ. sorry youre strangely autistically angry about this purchase
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Fetus Tree posted:that isnt going to happen again and this is going to be, at worst, a mediocre investment for VZ. USTISM AUTSISTIC AUSTISTS
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Pauline Kael posted:OK obvious financial wizard Fetus Tree, please share with the thread the double top secret properties that AOL owns that make it worth $4.4b. Hell, I'll make it easy on you, come up with $2b of plausible value and we'll call it a win for you lol are you loving serious
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Three Olives posted:He bought a pretty sweet house though: i'm glad you posted this because i'm totally fascinated by this house. i mean it's a really good location but all the furniture in the (mockup?) interior looks like it could have been modeled in minecraft. i wonder if notch tore it all out and tried to make the interior as non-euclidean as possible
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"hurf durf aol just owns dialup for dead grandma right??" -literally goons who are dumb
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Nagato posted:i'm glad you posted this because i'm totally fascinated by this house. i only like that he outbid jayz and beyonce and put all the poo poo they sent ahead to move into the house outside and left it there, because they assumed it was theirs already
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TEAYCHES posted:"hurf durf aol just owns dialup for dead grandma right??" -literally goons who are dumb thats their single largest source of income though, the "pivot" to web content is a smokescreen Nonsense posted:i only like that he outbid jayz and beyonce and put all the poo poo they sent ahead to move into the house outside and left it there, because they assumed it was theirs already
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