AOL's dial-up business is a classic cash cow -- hugely profitable today but inexorably declining. Take out AOL's Internet access business, and you still have a new-media powerhouse. |
AOL's dial-up business is a classic cash cow — hugely profitable today but inexorably declining. Take out AOL's Internet access business, and you still have a new-media powerhouse. |
For virtually every Web 2.0 success story, one can point back to a company in the Web 1.0 era [in the 1990s] that was essentially trying to do the same thing. |
Over the next decade, the idea of video content being limited to a single time and device will become quaint. Broadcasting, as we know it, is an artifact of historical limitations on distribution, which are increasingly irrelevant in the digital broadband age. |
They have identified a very valuable niche central to the functioning of the Internet and telephone networks. And [they] have quite wisely gained assets on traditional telecom and Net infrastructure, anticipating the convergence of the two worlds. |