{"id":2441,"date":"2006-07-06T10:47:59","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T10:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2006-07-06T10:47:59","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T10:47:59","slug":"aol_certain_dea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"AOL: &#8220;Certain Death or Free Plus Ads&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetoutsider.com\/2006\/07\/aol_may_bet_com.html\">Henry Blodget<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i> The <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB115215133247699165.html?mod=home_whats_news_us\">WSJ reports<\/a> that AOL is considering making online access to its service&#8211;including, importantly, email&#8211;free.  (AOL email users currently have to pay for one of the company&#8217;s subscription plans, although much of the rest of the company&#8217;s content is already free.)  Per the WSJ, this move would vaporize about one-quarter of the company&#8217;s revenue, or $2 billion.  The company estimates that it would also result in the loss of 8 million paying subscribers.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetoutsider.com\/2006\/07\/vonage_underwri.html\">Blodget also notes<\/a> that Vonage&#8217;s recent IPO continues to be black comedy (public at 17, now 8.25 after just a month&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Blodget: The WSJ reports that AOL is considering making online access to its service&#8211;including, importantly, email&#8211;free. (AOL email users currently have to pay for one of the company&#8217;s subscription plans, although much of the rest of the company&#8217;s content is already free.) Per the WSJ, this move would vaporize about one-quarter of the company&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}