AOL needs a plan--now!
ZDNet | at | by Mike
The recent revelations of distress at AOL Time Warner only underscore the frustrating truth still defining this enigma: Since its blockbuster merger two years ago, this combined company continues to be one heck of a property--but one severely burdened by the absence of any clearly articulated future. How's that for a contradiction in terms? But the contradiction sums up a lot about AOL these days.
Dozens of "experts" are now busy sifting through AOL's garbage trying to uncover additional damning evidence to explain why one of Wall Street's former darlings has fallen from grace. Many are gleefully pointing fingers of blame at the various departed or diminished leaders they once deified. They are wasting their time and soon, no doubt, ours with shrill histrionics, belittling and bemoaning facts that can't be changed.