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A US judge has dismissed a case against AOL and some of its top execs over their repurchase of millions of shares in 2011 without letting on that the company was planning to sell a $1bn patent portfolio to Microsoft. A shareholder had sued AOL, its chief exec Tim Armstrong and CFO Arthur Minson, saying that they knew about the …

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  1. Anonymous Custard

    Deja Vu

    Suddenly getting something of a deja vu feeling.

    But at least in this case the judge had the sense to chuck the thing out...

    1. ukgnome

      Re: Deja Vu

      Deja Vu

      Suddenly getting something of a deja vu feeling.

      But at least in this case the judge had the sense to chuck the thing out...

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Deja Vu

        Deja Vu

        Suddenly getting something of a deja vu feeling.

        But at least in this case the judge had the sense to chuck the thing out...

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Deja Vu

          Deja Vu

          Suddenly getting something of a deja vu feeling.

          But at least in this case the judge had the sense to chuck the thing out...

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Deja View

    A new tv channel showing repeats for a change

  3. Katie Saucey

    Lawsuit from an AOL shareholder?

    "AOL shareholder", is the problem right there, no one holding AOL stock past the year 2000 could be deemed sane.

  4. micheal

    Expect the same sort of whinging

    From a certain DELL shareholding consortium soon.

    BTW.....I bet she didn't read the disclaimer "the value of shares can go up or down"

    that's why it's called "Speculating" in stocks, nothing is guaranteed except death and taxes

  5. John McCallum
    Devil

    http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/aol seems to be quite healthy to me at $34.245 each share and is a buy.

    According to this site.

    1. Don Jefe

      AOL is an odd duck for a tech company. They don't make the news anymore, but they're one of Google's largest partners and they keep making people money.

      Maybe a business doesn't need to be in the headlines everyday to be successful? Surely that can't be right. Right???

  6. John Smith 19 Gold badge
    Meh

    Trust the Board *not* to line their own pockets?

    Well?

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