John Murrell

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AOL Shares Patent Windfall With a $400M Buyback

As tipped by Kara Swisher over the weekend, AOL said today it will buy back $400 million worth of its shares as the first step in passing out the proceeds of its $1.1 billion patent sale to Microsoft. Shareholders will have until Aug. 2 to tender shares (currently trading at about $27.50) at a price between $27 and $30.


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The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.

— Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”