Word: aol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down 1%. None of the major averages have dropped to their September low, though the nasdaq 100 (made up of the biggest stocks on that market, including Microsoft and Intel) is close. And already 1 in 8 stocks in the S&P 500 is below those September thresholds, including AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME), Corning, EDS, Halliburton, IBM, Lilly, Merck and Verizon, reports Salomon Smith Barney...
Rather than seeking new ways of pleasing customers, however, the Big Five music companies (AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, EMI, Sony and Vivendi Universal) are focusing on making it harder for consumers to get what they want. Although the connection between home copying and lost sales is as tenuous as it was in the '80s, the industry is pushing controversial anticopying technology into the marketplace--while entrepreneurs are assembling new business models for selling music in the digital...
...your report "The Engine Stalls at AOL" [BUSINESS, April 22]: My family just dropped AOL in favor of MSN. Getting through to AOL proved to be more difficult than talking to someone at the White House. AOL seems to have copped the attitude that "we are the biggest, and we don't give a damn what you think of us." Getting online took forever. Now that we have a new service, we have not had one problem, and we are online instantly. Perhaps AOL should take a cue from its competitors on how to treat its customers and not focus...
...surprised that AOL is experiencing difficulties, since I know how wasteful its marketing strategy is. I have a huge pile of free-trial AOL CDs that were sent to me despite my having repeatedly told AOL that I am very satisfied with my present Internet provider. NICK GODWIN Edinburgh...
...droves to buy those enormous black-and-white TV sets in the early days? That furniture-size hardware was a must-have to watch Milton Berle. These days we'd call that a content-driven business model. And it will work just as well for broadband Internet. What AOL needs more than anything right now is a hit Web show. Throw in a cable-TV tie-in for good measure, and AOL's chief officer, Robert Pittman, will see that the company is on top once again. ALLAN HOVING Westport, Conn...