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Conglomerate. >> the aol-time warner merger was the classic dotcom insanity. >> $160 billion. the biggest corporate takeover ever. >> this merger will launch the next internet revolution. >> the merger of time warner and aol wasn't really a merger. it was a purchase. >> i am struck by this image today of the upstart aol gobbling up this media institution time warner. shouldn't it be the other way around? >> well, it's sort of startling that a company that couldn't even buy beer is now buying one of the oldest media companies in the country that took a century to get this big. >> we're just scr...

Tumbling from $113 a share to less than 16 today. >> it's not the kind of stock that you can own and sleep well if you're a small investor. and i think by the way that's true of all internet stocks. >> there are plenty of people that said this is just a dip, buy the dips, this is going to come back. i think by the spring of 2001 it was pretty clear that this was over. >> three, two, one. we put this baby to bed. >> shopping is now turned off. >> we know there's a lot of pain to go around in terms of the stock market these days but aol stock's gotten beaten down even more than the rest of the m...

At aol and as you know these two companies are now together part of oath, which was created in 2017, of which verizon is the parent. competitors such as microsoft says it does not ever use email content for ad targeting anyway. the privacy policy says it can access your data for law enforcement purposes or what they call issues of public importance. google took criticism for years for content and finally under pressure to end its ad targeted email scanning. it only reads reads your emails to see what businesses you use. if you sign up for brokerage accounts, yahoo will categorize you as an inv...

Verizon is the parent of 2017. >> shepard: what do they form? >> yahoo and aol. they are call oath. i have animals. i have lots. but the idea is that listen, your emails are not private. let's just go with that. nothing is at all. yahoo also. >> shepard: other companies doing this, too? >> so google, g mail stopped actually last year because people were complaining about it so much. after a lot of back and forth google actually said okay. we're not going to do that anymore. microsoft has said never ever. we have never done this to you to your user and apple said we don't do it to you but our p...

Reporting from our cousins at the "wall street journal." the parent company tells the journal it's because running a free email system is expensive. and users can opt out if they want. or if they know that they need. to say. >> that was actually part of it. >> shepard: you have got to opt out? >> kind of expensive. >> shepard: opt out of them reading your emails? >> yes. and in their defense, i guess we will be generous and start with that first, they say if they are reading your emails, it's really because they are only going through these kind of mass emails like let's say you bought somethi...