“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”