AOL Quietly Returns to Life on Its Own

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Article Source New York Times
December 9, 2009, 10:44 pm
The long, chaotic and star-crossed relationship between AOL and Time Warner finally ended on Wednesday.
AOL began trading as its own public company again after its long-planned spin-off from Time Warner was finally made official. The separation occurred almost 10 years after the merger of the two companies was announced to great fanfare with the promise of a synergistic combination of old and new media…