AOL’s $164 billion acquisition of Time Warner in 2000 is widely remembered as one of the most disastrous deals in corporate history. By comparison, AOL’s acquisition of the social networking site Bebo for $850 million two years ago was tiny. But relatively, it proved to be as much of a fiasco.
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AOL Unloads Social Networking Site Bebo
by MIGUEL HELFT on Jun 17, 2010
AOL's Screechy Tween Video Site, Cambio, Debuts Tuesday
by Dan Nosowitz on Jun 15, 2010
AOL's been having a tough half-decade or so, but are looking to turn things around with a new content partnership with none other than the tween obsession of the moment, the Jonas brothers. Cambio, a partnership between AOL and the Jonas Group (that is the actual name of the company; it's run by the father of the Jonas brothers and also represents other tween idols like Demi Lovato and Jordin Sparks), is a new video project that will be launching this Tuesday.
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