If there's a strategy there, I don't see it yet. |
If this is legal they've saved themselves a lot of capital expenditure. But whether this is something that can be rolled out system-wide legally, I honestly don't know. |
Investors should increasingly focus on the aggregate unique users ... page views and time spent online across the AOL Web sites to judge the success or failure of AOL's new strategy, |
Investors should increasingly focus on the aggregate unique users ... page views and time spent online across the AOL Web sites to judge the success or failure of AOL's new strategy. |
It's at the margins for me. It just comes up as a trophy asset that I believe they should sell. |
It's encouraging. I don't think the business is completely out of the woods yet, but we are significantly better in 2006 than anyone expected. |
It's ironic: A year ago people were questioning whether it would exist, and now five of the largest media tech companies in the world are speculated to be interested in buying a piece of it for multiple billion dollars. |
It's less than the worst-case scenario. |
It's very unclear whether consumers are going to be interested. It's still a very limited basket of channels. |
makes sense strategically, because it gives a cable component to what investors are viewing as the boring, unexciting growth side of the post-split company. |
Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening, |
Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening. |
More than doubling the stock buyback will be encouraging to investors, |
More than doubling the stock buyback will be encouraging to investors. |
Nobody could have anticipated how much of a financial juggernaut ESPN would become. |