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This 11 page paper is an examination of the financial performance of AOL time Warner in 2005 and 2006 comparing this media conglomerate with the Walt Disney Corporation over the same period, looking at profit, liquidity, debt utilization, asset utilization and stock performance. The bibliography cites 8 sources.
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marketed is as a storing buy, (Yahoo Finance, 2007). This is averaging out as a hold, but the analysts are widely diverse. In this paper all figures are taken from
the relevant annual account unless stated otherwise and all figures apart from the per share figures are I $millions. 2. Company History
AOL was founded in the early 1980s under a different name, that of Control Video Corp (Alsop, 1997). The aim of the company at this time was to be an
online company that specialised in the provision of online gaming (Alsop, 1997). This was the time when the Commodore 64 was seen as advanced, but this company did not succeed,
and then faced a reorganisation. Now the company became Quantum Computer Services and still provided online service, but this time it though it had found a better market, that of
the development of online services for other companies, the most interesting of these was Commodore themselves, whom it developed a service call Q-Link (Alsop, 1997).
The company started to grow and developed strategic alliance with Tandy through their Radio Shack stores where they supported a new dos based on line service provided
by Quantum. Another agreement with Apple looked to give them a first mover advantages with their software designed for the ill fated Apple IIs but this was withdrawn by Apple
at the last minute, this looked like a disaster, but in the end this was to be the making of AOL. With all this spare software and nothing to do
with it the company decided to launch the software itself under the name America Online, a risky proposition as the company was not financial strong. The tactic was simple, blanketing
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