Dear Abby wished she looked this good! Model/reality TV star Heidi Klum is poised to dole out advice on fashion, beauty, parenting, and love and relationships after teaming up with AOL.com to create original web content for the search giant. Klum and Full Picture Entertainment, the producers of Project Runway, will create video content, articles, [...]
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Yahoo History Suggests Resistance to an AOL Takeover
October 14th, 2010 |
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Yahoo may be the target of a takeover bid, according to rumors. However, Yahoo’s corporate culture and its rejection of Microsoft suggest it would fight hard. – Could Yahoo find itself an acquisition target?
That seems to be the question drifting around the Web, following news that a
handful of private equity firms were exploring the prospect of teaming with AOL
or News Corp. for a Yahoo takeover. Yahoo’s stock price leapt upward, and Bank
of America M…
AOL Buys Top Tech Blog TechCrunch
September 29th, 2010 |
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AOL has agreed to acquire TechCrunch for a reported $25 million to $40 million. TechCrunch will join Engadget, DownloadSquad and other popular properties at AOL. – AOL agreed to buy popular technology blog
TechCrunch, which will join Engadget, the DownloadSquad, the unofficial Apple Weblog
and other blogs in AOL’s Technology Network.
Financial terms of the deal, announced and inked onstage by TechCrunch
founder Michael Arrington and AOL CEO
Tim Armstrong …
Google, AOL Add Mobile, Video with Search Deal
September 3rd, 2010 |
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Google and AOL refresh and extend their search deal to cover mobile search and video for the next five years. Google beat Bing, Yahoo and others for AOL’s hand. – Google and AOL Sept. 2 inked a fresh five-year
deal in which Google will power the search results on AOL’s
Websites accessed from computers and mobile devices.
Financial terms were not disclosed for the global deal, which includes a
revenue-sharing arrangement per each search. Some analysts bel…
AOL Rally Up Buy Underscores Mobile First Strategy
September 1st, 2010 |
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AOL acquired mobile app maker Rally Up, the company’s latest move to fortify its "mobile first" strategy as it seeks to challenge Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Twitter on the Web. – AOL is betting big on mobile, in case the company’s July revamp
of its mobile platform around Google’s Android operating system wasn’t a clue.
The company has purchased mobile application provider Rally
Up for an undisclosed sum. TechCrunch said the deal was worth $10 million.
Rally Up makes two…
AOL Android Apps, HTML5 Site Target Mobile Consumers
July 23rd, 2010 |
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AOL July 22 launched two Google Android applications and opened a new smartphone portal and mobile Website to better compete with Google, Facebook and Twitter in the emerging mobile content market. – AOL July 22 moved to shore up its mobile
offerings, launching two Google Android applications and opening a new
smartphone portal and mobile Website.
The company, which is working hard to transform into an Internet-content
provider, is making a big bet on mobile to compete for eyeballs with Goog…
Create A Group Email by AOL Posted By : Susan10
February 26th, 2010 |
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If you are AOL Email users on Internet and if you frequently send an Email to a large group of the same recipients then creating an AOL Email distribution list will help you out. But sometimes you face problems to delete an AOL Email address. Therefore with these given steps you can help yourself.
AOL Layoffs Follow Voluntary Job Cuts
January 11th, 2010 |
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AOL says 1,100 people took voluntary job elimination packages in December 2009, not the 2,500 people the company had hoped for. As a result, AOL says layoffs are necessary to help reach its goal of saving $200 million. Other efforts include the closing of offices internationally; at least two will shortly be shut down in Sweden and Spain.
– AOL is pursuing its
transition to being a more content- and media-driven company by restructuring
its work force, something that has openly been in the works since the company
asked for volunteers to take job elimination packages in December 2009. On Jan.
11, AOL began laying employees off in sm…
New strategies at AOL and Yahoo!: Back into the fray
December 10th, 2009 |
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Two fallen internet titans are trying to regain their footing
“THEY never come back” may be an ironclad law of boxing, but AOL and Yahoo! are trying to prove that it does not apply to lumbering online giants. On December 9th Time Warner span off AOL, undoing a famously ill-conceived merger. A couple of days earlier Yahoo! and Microsoft finalised an agreement to merge their web-search and much of their advertising businesses, freeing Yahoo! to hone a new strategy. Peculiarly, both firms’ comeback plans hinge on giving away content to attract traffic and thus advertising—an online strategy that has disappointed many media companies.
AOL and Yahoo! came of age a decade ago in different corners of the internet: one as the biggest provider of dial-up access, the other as the leading web directory. Both soon turned into “portals” providing both content and communications tools, such as web-mail and instant messaging. More recently, both have drifted while the internet evolved around them. A series of weak bosses failed to do away with fiefs, professionalise management and keep the brands fresh, even as competition—from broadband in the case of AOL, and from rivals such as Google and Facebook for Yahoo!—ate into revenues. …
AOL to Lay Off 2,500 Employees
November 20th, 2009 |
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In order to reduce its operating cost, AOL management is asking for so-called voluntary layoffs. Involuntary layoffs will follow if AOL does not hit its target of reducing its operating budget by $200 million in the first half of 2010.
– AOL
plans to reduce its operating cost, and so is asking for so-called voluntary
layoffs. Involuntary layoffs will follow if AOL
does not hit its target of shedding $200 million in the first half of 2010. Time
Warner plans to spin the company off in 2010.
AOL will be reducing its work force b…
HP Links Up with AOL, Flickr for Suite of Printers
September 9th, 2009 |
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HP adds more applications to its line of Web-connected all-in-one printers, including an app that makes printing and sharing photos through Flickr easier.
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Technology company Hewlett
Packard (HP) announced a series of relationships and solutions designed to open
up Web printing to all its customers, small business or home office customers
as well as consumers. HP is partnering with AOL to bring embedded print
customization tools to …
HP Links Up with AOL, Flickr for Suite of Printers
September 9th, 2009 |
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HP adds more applications to its line of Web-connected all-in-one printers, including an app that makes printing and sharing photos through Flickr easier.
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Technology company Hewlett
Packard (HP) announced a series of relationships and solutions designed to open
up Web printing to all its customers, small business or home office customers
as well as consumers. HP is partnering with AOL to bring embedded print
customization tools to …
Are Men Tired Of Megan Fox? Aug. 4 “Megan Fox Media Blackout Dayâ€
July 29th, 2009 |
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Have the men of America tired of looking at Megan Fox? The editors of least a dozen men’s interest websites, including AOL’s Asylum.com and AskMen.com, think so. That’s why they’ve sanctioned August 4 as “Megan Fox Media Blackout Day.”
After a “Summer of Megan,” the male lifestyle hubs are hoping to give readers a one day [...]
Google Sells $1B Stake in AOL For $283M
July 28th, 2009 |
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Google earlier this month sold its $1 billion stake in AOL for $282 million, confirming the search engine giant’s concerns from a year ago that its investment was impaired. Time Warner is set to spin AOL off, and the company will have to go it alone versus real-time and social services from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Facebook and Twitter.
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Google sold its $1 billion investment in AOL for just
$283 million July 8, more than four years after buying the 5 percent stake in
the Web portal in a coup against rival Microsoft, according to a regulatory filing July 27.
Google
had purchased the stake in Time Warner’s online un…
Time Warner buys back AOL stake from Google
July 28th, 2009 |
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Time Warner Inc. bought back Google Inc.’s 5 percent stake in struggling Internet company AOL LLC for $283 million, according to a regulatory filing by AOL on Monday.
The price paid on July 8 is close to what Google estimated its stake at earlier this year.
Mountain View-based Google bought the stake [...]
Time Warner Buys Google’s Stake in AOL for $283M
July 28th, 2009 |
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Time Warner paid $283 million for Google’s 5 percent stake in AOL, the Internet company says in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Time Warner, which plans to spin off AOL by the end of 2009, bought the stake from search company Google on July 8, AOL says. The price that the company paid for Google’s stake implies that AOL has a total value of about $5.7 billion.
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(Reuters) Time Warner Inc paid $283 million for Google Inc’s 5 percent stake in
AOL, the Internet company said in a U.S.
regulatory filing on Monday.
Time Warner, which plans to spin off AOL
by the end of the year, bought the stake from Google on July 8, AOL
said in the filing with th…
Shelly Palmer: News Corp Thinks Videogames are Missing Link: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer July 27, 2009
July 27th, 2009 |
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News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller told a conference that videogames are the “missing piece of the equation” for companies like media conglomerates….
Yahoo Buys Xoopit to Boost Photo-Sharing Versus Google, AOL
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Yahoo scoops up Xoopit, a Web services specialist that combs through the glut of files, photos and videos floating in users’ Yahoo Mail and Google Gmail clouds and lets users post the content on other social networks and blogs to share with their friends. Yahoo hopes to place ads around the tool, which has powered the My Photos section in Yahoo Mail since December. Google, AOL and others lose out on this one.
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Yahoo confirmed earlier reports July 22 when it said it
agreed to buy media file-sharing software specialist Xoopit.
Yahoo declined to confirm the purchase price, though
AllThingsDigital,
which first reported the news July 21, claims the price is in the $20 million
range.
Many me…
Tim Armstrong, AOL CEO: “The Old AOL Was Run By Blogs, The New AOL Is Run By Me”
July 16th, 2009 |
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During the question-and-answer portion of the all-hands, one staffer asked Tim if SAI’s estimate that AOL will probably have to lay-off another ~2,000 employees was close to the mark.
We were glad to hear of Tim’s response. First he said that…