"Naturally, it blames the Meltdown."

Naturally. It couldn't possibly be bad business moves made by management who had dollar signs in their eyes at the thought of pushing adds at people 24/7, despite the fact that people are completely fed up with marketing being in their face constantly.

" "The economic environment has proved somewhat more challenging than the company previously expected, particularly for the advertising businesses at the AOL and publishing segments," Time Warner said in a statement released this morning."

Oh, wait ... They *did* push too many ads, by there own admission ... And now people are ignoring ads out of reflex, so advertisers don't want to pay anymore. Cry me a river, BigBusiness. The little guy is fed up with advertising. Get used to it.

Yahoo's toast. Probably followed by Google.

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

I seem to remember they offered customers a 'free trial' & on discovering the service was shite & cancelling their account with AOL, funds continued to be withdrawn from customers credit card accounts.

A worthy casualty of the recession.

So was he just an inflated doll?

What bonuses did the big boys get then?