Word: aol
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...Crockett ’02 randomly IMed me while we were high school seniors, as he saw Harvard in my AOL profile. What started as hello blossomed into a slew of friendly e-mails and phone calls. More than anything or anyone else, chatting with Mr. Ben convinced me to choose Crimson over blue or brown. My logic was simple: if there were others in Cambridge as warm as he was, then college would be cake. Though the Harvard-as-cake analogy needed some serious tweaking, I was right about...
...competed in a market totaling a few million dollars in sales per year. Retrospectively, it’s unclear what benefit, if any, the public received from these blocked mergers since most mergers of large, competing companies fail. For proof, look at the fates of MCI Worldcom and AOL Time Warner, two companies whose plans for world domination through merger have failed of late. AOL just recorded the largest quarterly loss—$54 billion—in corporate history, and Worldcom’s CEO Bernie Ebbers has just resigned under pressure from his board for his poor management...
...everywhere could try them out, suggest ideas, fix bugs and generally stress-test the bejeezus out of Mozilla. This is a technique called "open source"; big corporations rarely use it because it involves giving other people free access to the innards--or source code--of your software. But given AOL's chilly relationship with Microsoft, that seemed a small price to pay for an alternative to Internet Explorer...
...even if Mozilla were a terrible browser, it would be important just for being different. Right now 90% of the Web surfers in the world use Internet Explorer. Do you trust Microsoft to control how everybody on earth sees the Internet? For that matter, would you trust AOL or any other company? On the Internet, diversity is healthy. Sometimes a little complication can be a good thing...
...Prime Number $54.2 billion is the record first-quarter loss reported by AOL Time Warner, due to a balance sheet write-down following the plunge in the company's stock price...