AOL eked out a gain of 1 cent, to $45.15, and AT&T, a Dow stock, shed 24 cents, to $20.24.
AOL started out as an online video gaming network.
During the battles AOL bought out its own true competitor, the Compuserve online service.
AOL rolled out 554 local Patch sites in Q4.
Today was the first time AOL broke out these numbers.
Among the retreating technology and technology-facing stocks, AOL stands out today in terms of the scale of its decline.
We also heard that when Aol came out with the new "Project Phoenix" Mail product in 2010, many in Aol Consumer Applications wanted to market it as being free but their suggestions were overturned by higher-ups as the percentage of misinformed subscribers still ponying up just to use Aol Mail is very profitable.
With the Time Warner Merger in their history, its about time that AOL come out from under its dial-up shell, and breath new life into its brand name using the social tip-of-the-arrow that is The Huffington Post.
(Better tools in the next version of AOL for filtering out spam will probably make women much happier).
"I never ran the company by numbers," snapped Ted Turner, CNN's founder and patriarch, to the New Yorker recently.To his advantage, the 47-year-old Mr Pittman, son of a Mississippi preacher, does not quite fit the caricature of the techno-nerd dispatched from AOL to sort out the creative types.
AOL never figured out how to monetize it; digital culture evolved toward social media and social networks, and the chat prototype became obsolete.
