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AOL is buying an online advertising company that specializes in matching ads to specific portions of Web sites, continuing an acquisition binge as the company seeks to regain relevance amid a tumble in its Internet access subscriptions.
AOL is eliminating another 2,000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and make room to grow in online advertising.
AOL is once again revamping its Netscape.com Web portal, dropping a year-old "social news" component in which visitors submitted and voted on news stories and blog entries to determine how they're ranked on the site.
AOL saw its largest quarterly drop in paying subscribers, while traffic to the company's free, ad-supported Web sites held steady, prompting Time Warner executives to declare Wednesday that their online unit's new strategy is on track.
Movies and television shows from Paramount Pictures will be available for sale through AOL's new video portal under a deal announced Monday.
AOL announced Wednesday it will lay off 1,300 employees by closing call centers in New Mexico and Arizona as part of a previously announced restructuring plan.
Ever since I discovered I could check AOL e-mail accounts using a regular Internet browser, I've found little use for the company's all-in-one software package.
AOL's chief technology officer left the company and two other workers were fired in the aftermath of a privacy breach that involved the intentional release of more than 650,000 subscribers' Internet search terms.
AOL has purchased a developer of Web-based chat and other communications technologies as the company seeks to expand the reach of its popular AIM instant-messaging service and its ad-supported offerings like video clips.
AOL released the Internet search terms that more than 650,000 of its subscribers entered over a three-month period and admitted Monday that what it originally intended as a gesture to researchers amounted to a privacy breach and a mistake.
As part of AOL's push to begin giving away most of its services, the Internet company will offer a free online storage bin that will let people back up their photos, music and other important files.
AOL just gave its customers more reasons to stop paying. In a strategy shift likely to accelerate the decline in its core Internet access business, AOL said Wednesday it would give away e-mail accounts and software previously available only to customers who paid as much as $26 a month.
The company responsible for introducing millions of people to the Internet is poised to undergo a transformation that would likely accelerate its decline as a gatekeeper of access to the information superhighway.
AOL LLC may give away even more of its services, including its vaunted AOL.com e-mail accounts now limited to paying subscribers, to boost ad revenues and offset declines in subscriptions, a person familiar with the discussions said Thursday.
AOL is revamping its Netscape.com Web portal to give visitors a greater role in determining what news articles get readily shown to others.
Millions of AOL users encountered delays sending and receiving e-mail for several hours Thursday before the company identified and fixed a software glitch.
AOL said Tuesday it has done such a good job of helping its customers help themselves that it is cutting about 1,300 customer-service jobs and closing its Jacksonville, Fla., call center.
AOL is set to offer its instant-messaging users a free phone number to use for incoming calls, and for a fee, the ability to call regular phones from the software.
It's official: America Online Inc. is now known simply as AOL. In an expected move, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet unit said Monday it has renamed itself; it also changed from being a corporation to a limited liability company.
Google Inc. said Thursday it expects to complete its $1 billion investment in America Online during the second quarter, slightly later than the two popular Web sites originally anticipated.
America Online Inc., seeking to encourage its subscribers to sign up for high-speed connections, is raising the price of its main dial-up plan to equal that of its new broadband offerings.
America Online Inc. and WebEx Communications Inc. are teaming up to provide a business version of AOL's popular AIM instant-messaging software.
Considering they share responsibility for 50 million children, parents and teachers sure have some different views about what goes on in school.
Too much homework? Sorry, kids, the adults aren't buying it. Most parents say their children get the right amount of homework, and most teachers agree, according to an AP-AOL Learning Services Poll.
Two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers, Yahoo Inc. and America Online, plan to introduce a service that would charge senders a fee to route their e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies said Sunday.
28 year old Todd Moeller was sentenced to 27 months in prison for spamming more than a million AOL subscribers. He was caught making a deal with a government official to send spam advertising a computer security program in return for 50% of the profit.
AOL has scooped up yet another online advertising company — this time, one that has faced off with Google and Yahoo in selling contextual text ads, those small, sponsored links that run next to articles.
The silver screen has some of the best looking women in the industry.Movies are made more entertaining when they feature some of these sexy actresses. Three Cheers to the top 30 sexiest actresses.
Quarterly growth slowed by 29% in Carphone Warehouse's broadband business. Carphone Warehouse's AOL and Talk Talk services signed up 89,000 new customers in its latest quarter.
In order to maintain an audience large enough to sustain an advertising supported model, traditional media will need to use their content to enable conversations around that content and build themselves into the central gathering point for people to discuss learn about and discus …
....Setting the stage for a possible bidding battle, Microsoft Corp. is mulling an investment in Facebook Inc. that would value the rapidly growing online hangout at $10 billion or more...
Wang Xiaonig, a political opponent of the Chinese government has been in prison for 5 years because he published literature suggesting China become more democratic. Yahoo! is now being sued for giving the Chinese government information from Wang's email account.
The Netscape social news experiment is now done. Social News has been migrated over to Propeller.com while Netscape.com itself resembles a Yahoo-esque portal. Didn't see any official announcement from the Propeller/Netscape staff either.
The Netscape/AOL team has given an official update as to what theyre doing with the netscape social news product. Some people were predicting the social news site would move over to www.wow.com, but thats not the case.
AOL's social news site at Netscape.com will soon undergo a rebranding named 'Propeller' (No word yet on whether I have to wear a beanie hat or not)
American women believe that a member of their own gender has a better chance at winning the 2008 presidential election than any minority reveals a new poll from Woman's Day magazine and AOL News.
Maybe they haven't sued the whole Internet, just a good chunk of it. Polaris IP, a patent firm, has filed a patent infringement suit against Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, A9.com, Borders, AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, which owns Ask.com.
Some serious Michael Moore bashing will turn up this week on AOL's True Stories website thanks to 40 minutes of excerpts from the documentary "Manufacturing Dissent." Web users will be able to stream the digital video at no extra cost.
This is an interesting porfolio of the ten most expensive cities in the world, conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting. The first most expensive city is Moscow, followed by London, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Copenhagen Geneva, Osaka, Zurich and Oslo which is the tenth.
It always rains or is cloudy on my Birthday.Maybe that is why I am so philosophical.
This blog post is about the social bookmarking sites I am connected to.
Imagine a world were design wasn't subjective; imagine a world were design intentions were in-sync with design executions. A design's worst enemy is not the input of a non-designer – a design's worst enemy is when its designer can't sell it.
Google no longer holds the gold metal in customer satisfaction—at least not according to the University of Michigan's American Consumer Satisfaction Index. Instead, Yahoo has dethroned Google and taken first place.
When people raise concerns about media consolidation, they tend to complain more about Viacom than Yahoo.
Some companies change the terms of their consumer contracts frequently. Sometimes, they do so without providing direct notice to consumers. But it's likely that this practice will become much rarer in the wake of a recent court decision. In Douglas v .U.S.
Time Warner said Wednesday that second-quarter profit had gained 5.2 percent on higher cable revenue, but shares dipped after sales at the AOL Internet unit plunged 38 percent.
Skip those auto-prompts and get a real person instantly! The GetHuman database contains shortcuts for more than 500 individual call centres. These tips are good for general use when those robot voices are driving you mad.
Hello, my name is Jacqui, and I'm addicted to checking my e-mail.
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