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AOL No Longer Equal to Sum of Parts

There have been a ton of stories out since yesterday that Time Warner is planning to split up AOL into a subscription/dialup business and an advertising/platform business. This news has been anticipated for a while, and so is welcome finally. As a former AOLer, I'm glad to see the decision finally broad forward, though it's probably 4-5 years waaaaay too late.

Stories on the proposed AOL split-up:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/06/1752230
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/06/aol-to-be-split-in-two_n_85338.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-timewarner7feb07,1,3340253.story
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/06/aol-to-split-off-dying-access-subscription-business-whens-that-advertising-ipo/
http://www.newwebmag.com/2008/02/06/aol-to-split-off-dying-access-subscription-business-when%e2%80%99s-that-advertising-ipo/
http://www.siliconvalleywire.com/svw/2008/02/time-warner-to.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/business/reuters-warner.html?_r=2&ex=1360040400&en=975c8c8381810fb7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://www.itpro.co.uk/internet/news/163539/time-warner-to-log-off-from-aol.html

Several additional links from:
http://bigblog.com/web_developer/time-warner-planning-aol-split-1287471394.html

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