America Online has decided to make all its content available for free.


The New York Times has reported, “Today, though smaller, America Online is not merely alive but defiantly healthy – especially when it needs to be, having recently taken a terrifying but necessary strategic step: making virtually all of its content available free at AOL.com, no subscription required”.

There were reports earlier Microsoft and Time Warner were exploring a variety of combinations of MSN and America Online, including a merger of the two into a new company. It was also rumored that Google might be interested in AOL.

Richard D. Parsons, the chairman of AOL’s parent, Time Warner, has said that he will not part with AOL. He said, “What we are not likely to do, having carried this burden to this point in time is to part with AOL”. To improve the situation he has made all its content available for free instead of the subscription based service he offered earlier.

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