AOL may be sold piece by piece.

Yes, not so long ago, AOL was one of the most well-known Internet companies, creating products that were not equal. At one time, this company owned the most popular instant messaging service in the CIS: ICQ; in addition, AOL was accepted into the media empire called Time Warner. But then, AOL somehow went awry. Whether the company did not have time to keep up with the times, or there were no competent managers there, but AOL gradually lost all its authority and best practices, including ICQ, and now its leadership is looking for ways to put the company away.

So far this is not exactly official data, but Reuters news agency claims that AOL can be divided into two parts. All this will be called “business reorganization”, and for this, the communication direction of the company’s activity will be separated from the content part. Thus, the part of the company engaged in the provision of services of the “dialap” Internet (yes, it turns out that this area is still working, and this service is quite popular in the USA) will be sold to EarthLink or United Online.
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Interestingly, the idea of ​​selling the communication business AOL to EarthLink has already arisen, but the latter has chosen another project, DeltaCom.

As for the second direction of work of AOL, here experts unanimously predict that this part of the company will go to Yahoo! .. In fact, the latter urgently needs something that will allow to update the functionality of its services. No wonder the current executive director of Yahoo! they are blaming the fact that not a single significant service was launched with her, but almost every month a regular batch of employees is fired.

But if you combine AOL and Yahoo !, then it may turn out to be quite a competitive conglomerate, which will start a new life. Again, subject to the availability of competent leadership. Unfortunately, so far both AOL and Yahoo! do not give any comments, so it remains to believe Reuters and the news service of the same company Yahoo! ..

Via yahoo