AOL posted decent growth in online advertising sales. But profits missed forecasts and investors were not pleased.
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Will Time Inc. shareholders be as pleased as those of Time Warner Cable and AOL?
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US internet firm AOL reports its first year-on-year revenue growth for eight years, boosted by strong advertising sales, sending its share price higher.
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AOL, Amazon.com, eBay, Priceline and Yahoo are all still around today — and their stock prices are soaring again. But don’t expect another dot-com bust anytime soon.
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Shares in AOL jump 22% after the US internet firm reported a sharp rise in advertising revenues.
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Vringo (VRNG +8.5%) adds to the big gains seen yesterday on news of a partial settlement with AOL. 29% of the small-cap’s float was shorted as of July 13, so short-covering is probably a factor. Yesterday’s SA’s John H. Ford noted AOL’s Advertising.com unit relies on a Vringo patent in much the same way Google’s bread-and-butter AdWords search ad platform relies on it. This, he thinks, boosts the odds Google will settle with Vringo. (previous) 
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — After struggling to sell a patent portfolio earlier in the year, InterDigital shares are surging after it announced a $375 million sale of 1,700 patents and patent applications to chip giant Intel .
While investors are likely to see the partial sale of InterDigital’s patent portfolio as a positive, the company’s still battered shares signal that a current slate of intellectual property deals face challenges after tech giants spent much of 2011 cutting billions in intellectual property deals.
As patent sales fall in size, the financial turnarounds of many large tech companies like InterDigital, Nokia , Research In Motion and bankrupt camera pioneer Kodak, in part, hinge on a continued market for patents, amid a Silicon Valley intellectual property grab. However, InterDigital’s Monday deal shows that the value of some IP portfolios may not be as high as initially expected. …
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Institutional Shareholder Services is recommending that AOL shareholders vote for two of the three board nominees backed by dissident investor Starboard Value LP, according to published media reports.
The shareholder advisory firm released its report Saturday on AOL’s proxy battle, recommending that shareholders vote for Starboard CEO Jeffrey Smith and Dennis Miller, a strategic adviser to Lions Gate Entertainment Corp..
But ISS didn’t endorse James Warner, the principal of Third Floor Enterprises, a media and marketing advisory firm. …
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — On Friday, like most of you, I watched the nation’s media help to perpetrate one of the great frauds in American history.
Consider. If I can barely sell 15% of something at $38 a share, if I have to lay out millions-upon-millions of dollars to prop up that price for a single day, what makes you think I can sell the rest of it at that price, or anything like that price?
Exactly. …
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