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Google free to offload '$1bn' AOL stake

Christopher Emerson

What does $1bn get you these days? 

Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 11:51 GMT

Half a tank of petrol with change left for a loaf of bread?

David Perry

or... 

Posted Tuesday 1st July 2008 13:19 GMT

Boffin

Gets you a new data center after you've bullied intel enough (just)?

Blue science cos some serious engineering at play in them datacenters

bws

Whatever AOL is actually worth on paper... 

Posted Wednesday 2nd July 2008 08:28 GMT

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is still too damn much. What ever they estimate, it's probably closer to 30% of that figure. But hey, I never had any faith in AOL, Time Warner or the satanic union of the two. And now that TW has used & abused AOL for all it was worth, what's left is nothing to write home about...