In a somewhat surprising move, AOL has shelled out $850 million dollars to acquire social networking site Bebo. If you add Bebo’s 40 million users worldwide to AOL’s customer base for AIM and ICQ, AOL can now boast 80 million unique users. And AOL can show those 80 million users advertising while they’re on their service. I imagine it’s a little gloomy at both Facebook and Google this morning. \u201cBebo is the perfect complement to AOL\u2019s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a somewhat surprising move, AOL has shelled out $850 million dollars to acquire social networking site Bebo. If you add Bebo’s 40 million users worldwide to AOL’s customer base for AIM and ICQ, AOL can now boast 80 million unique users. And AOL can show those 80 million users advertising while they’re on their service. I imagine it’s a little gloomy at both Facebook and Google this morning. \u201cBebo is the perfect complement to AOL\u2019s personal communications network and puts us in a leading position in Continue reading