Tim armstrong aol biography books

A short reading list on the many lives of AOL, which will be acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion. Fifteen years ago, AOL acquired Time Warner for $165 billion. 

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The Online World of Steve Case (Businessweek, 1996)

It is Case’s America Online Inc.

that has shown how to turn a community of cybernauts into a mass market and how to successfully turn a computer network into a new medium for entertainment and news.

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With more than 5 million customers and 75,000 more joining every week, AOL is the most potent force in cyberspace.

“The Canary in the Coal Mine” (Kara Swisher, from the book aol.com, 1998)

Yet it was also a company in constant danger.

Innumerable challenges had given AOL a heart-rending roller coaster ride all along the way, and many observers had long predicted AOL’s imminent demise. In 1993, they claimed that AOL was too small to compete with CompuServe and Prodigy (online services backed by big bucks from major U.S.

corporations). AOL was