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To: puborectalis who wrote (38018)	1/20/2000 2:03:00 AM
From: gpowell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

The village idiot prigel graduates with a BA in accounting and now he has the audacity to call analysts under-educated. The analysts that I know, have PhDs. I'm not saying their intelligent, just not under-educated. Multiple contraction should not be a concern. I can not count the number of times I have heard journalists and under-educated analysts mouth off about growth ?slowing? at America Online as a result of the merger. This is pure bunk! I guess that makes Steve Case under-educated also. I have to hand it to the idiot though, a BA with a 4.0 GPA in 5 semesters shows promise, even if it doesn't require critical thinking. Just looked over some of AOL Q2 results. Overall it looked good. Sequential N. American subscriber growth is ~7% up from ~4.5% the last two Qs. Ad/E-Commerce revenue up 24% sequentially and now 27% of revenue. Solid growth for Ad/E-Commerce. Overall revenue growth was up 10% sequentially. Solid.

To: puborectalis who wrote (38018)	1/20/2000 8:12:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

NO-Brainer!...AOL Piles on the Profits Giant ISP reaches almost 24 million subscribers. by Clare Haney, IDG News Service January 20, 2000, 3:39 a.m. PT In the wake of its planned $350 billion merger with Time Warner announced last week, America Online (AOL) on Wednesday reported strong sales and earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31. Revenue soared 41 percent to reach $1.6 billion, up from $1.1 billion for the year-earlier quarter. Net income including one-time items was $271 million, compared with net income of $115 million for the year-earlier quarter, the company said. By the end of the quarter, AOL had notched up a total of 23.8 million subscribers for its range of services, with the AOL-branded service itself adding 1.8 million new members during the three-month period. CompuServe 2000 grew its membership by 440,000 subscribers, while AOL gained over 740,000 subscribers for Gateway.net, via an agreement the company signed with PC vendor Gateway Inc. for AOL to act as its custom ISP. AOL's ICQ instant messaging service gained 7.9 million users during the quarter. That brings its total membership to 53.1 million, 17.9 million of which are active users, the company said.