A new way to blog for iOS: CheckThis
CheckThis is a brand new app that is a fresh take on mobile blogging. Share pictures, stories, and even take polls with this iOS app.
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Let Google take you on a Field Trip
Google’s location-based app is now on iOS. It’ll help you discovery interesting and useful stuff around you.
RemotePlay lets you beam media from iOS to Android
Sharing photos, videos and even documents between mobile devices is easy with RemotePlay. The app even makes it possible to bridge the divide between iPads and Android devices.
Sunrise Calendar is a smart calendar app with a social twist
Erica demonstrates a free iOS calendar app that aggregates your Google personal and work calendars, your Facebook friends’ birthdays and your LinkedIN appointments all in one app. Oh, and it also tells you the weather.
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Why every baseball fan should have the At Bat mobile app.mov
The MLB season is almost here. I take a look at the best app for following your favorite baseball team during the season.
Is the Gojee app good for gourmets?
A video tour of recipe recommendation app Gojee.
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Oblong: Developing a multi-screen, multi-input workplace
Our computing is no longer relegated to a single screen. It has expanded to multiple screens with multiple inputs.
Desiging for different inputs
Oblong CEO Kwindla Kramer discusses the different approaches to designing for touch, voice and gesture
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Grabbing data with Oblong’s Seismo
Gesture controls give new ways to explore and maneuver through data.
GigaOM App Review: Triposo
Erica Ogg takes a look at a location-based travel guides app.
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A Tour of YouTube Space LA
Take a look inside the awesome production facility for content creators.
Technicolor CEO Fred Rose on why he launched M-GO
Technicolor and DreamWorks just launched M-Go, which wants you to rent and buy Hollywood blockbusters. But why compete in a market that already has iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and others? Fred Rose explains in an interview with GigaOM.
Maria Konnikova: The Mind of Sherlock Holmes
The author of “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes” explains how the detective was able to achieve his brilliance.
Maria Konnikova: How to Be More Like Sherlock Holmes
The author of “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes” provides insight as to how you can think like the briliiant detective.
Maria Konnikova: Why Sherlock Holmes Still Captivates
The author of “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes” explains why she thinks the character has endured throughout the years.
2013 CES: Haier shows off vision control for TVs
In the future, you’ll be able to control your TV with a blink of your eyes.
Vizio CTO on Google TV: It’s got legs
Google TV may be getting ready to take on Apple TV heads-on, and Vizio could be one of the first vendors to release a streaming-only box later this year.
Time lapse outside the Apple iPhone 5 event
Ever wonder what it’s like to line up for an Apple event. Wonder no more!
VIZIO CTO: Tablets kill TVs
Tablets don’t replace laptops, but small TV sets, according to VIZIO CTO Matt McRae. That’s why the company decided to enter the tablet market itself. VIZIO also recently introduced its own Google TV set-top box.
Google’s big plans for Hangouts On Air
Google Engineering Director Chee Chew tells us what’s next for Google+ Hangouts.
AOL Q4: Ads Up By 10%; Beats Street Estimates But Still Slumping
AOL (NYSE: AOL) today reported that its strategy to turn around its advertising business is definitely paying off, with sale up by 10 percen…
Gracenote’s second screen content recognition
Gracenote President Stephen White gives us a demo of the company’s yet-to-be launched advanced content recognition platform.
A quick demo of Mobile High-Definition Link
Use your mobile phone as a set-top box to play videos and games on your big-screen TV.
Interview with Occupy Oakland’s @OakFoSho
Spencer Mills has been live streaming from Occupy protests across the Bay Area, and his feed has attacted tens of thousands of viewers. So what’s next for Mills?
Cord Cutters: WD TV Live with Spotify!
Check out the set-top box with the hot music service.
Video look at AT&T’s fast Samsung Galaxy S II
How fast is AT&T’s upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II? The phone flies through tasks and supports speedy mobile broadband connectivity. The 4.3-inch screen is beautiful to behold, but you can still fit this thin handset in a front pocket.
Mobilize 2010: Qualcomm’s Craig Barratt
The President of Qualcomm, Atheros talks wi-fi.
What Does AOL’s Life After Access Look Like?
Many folks, including Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings, suggest AOL (NYSE: AOL) should drop its declining ISP business. In fact, it al…
What Y Combinator looks for in a founder
Y Combinator partner Jessica Livingston tells GigaOM what they look for in an entrepreneur.
Adobe Flash video running on the Samsung Galaxy S II
Testing out streaming video using the stock SGS2 browser and Adobe Flash 10.3 for Android.
Foursquare finds opportunities in the past
A talk with Foursquare Dennis Crowley
AOL Buying Back $250 Million Of Its Stock
AOL (NYSE: AOL) appears to be aiming to sweeten alarmed investors by repurchasing $250 million of its outstanding common stock.
The surpris…
AOL’s Display Turnaround Continues, Net Loss Slims
AOL’s display advertising turnaround appears to be taking shape, as Q2 numbers showed that segment up 14 percent globally. Meanwhile, the U.…
Armstrong @ AOL Analyst Day: Critics Of HuffPo Deal Just Don’t Understand
A month after AOL (NYSE: AOL) posted its first growth in display revenue after a more than three-year drought, the company is hosting an “an…
Will A UK Content Site Ever Sell For As Much As The Huffington Post?
The cash handed over by AOL (NYSE: AOL) for the Huffington Post, and before that for the technology news site TechCrunch, has sent a frisson…
AOL Selling ISP? Some Lessons From Europe
As the prospect is raised of AOL (NYSE: AOL) selling its ageing U.S. ISP business to concentrate on being a publisher, it’s worth noting tha…
AOL’s Display Struggles Continued In Q4; Brightcove Stake Sold
Over the past few months, AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong has said that display revenues will turn around by mid-year, an implicit warning…
AOL Lays Off Three After AIM-Thing Labs Shakeup
AOL (NYSE: AOL) has let go three staffers from its AIM team, as the company works to integrate Thing Labs and its Brizzly social media reade…
AOL Slows Decline In U.S. Display, But Still Not Keeping Up With Peers
While AOL (NYSE: AOL) managed to arrest the decline of its U.S. display revenues in Q3, the “hard work” that CEO Tim Armstrong has repeatedl…
Slideshow: AOL’s Homepage Through The Years
AOL (NYSE: AOL) announced a new homepage design today, which will go live Monday morning. It’s the latest iteration of a site that has had t…
Armstrong: We’re Trailing The Display Market Now, But Wait ‘Til 2011
Despite the recovery of display ad sales, AOL (NYSE: AOL) has found itself trailing the market, despite its vast reach. AOL CEO Tim Armstron…
AOL vs. Yahoo: A Tale of Two Search Deals
As AOL renews its existing search partnership with Google for five years, and expands the terms of the deal to include mobile advertising and a YouTube distribution agreement, Yahoo announces that it has lost a lucrative search-advertising deal with NHN, South Korea’s largest search engine company.
AOL Swings To Loss; Ad Revenues Plunge 27 Percent
While U.S. display advertising revenue fell year-over-year in Q2 2010, AOL (NYSE: AOL) did see some slight growth from Q1 thanks to improved…
AOL Earnings Train Wreck Driven By Bebo and Ad Revenue Shortfall
After warning analysts its financial results for the latest quarter would be disappointing, AOL still managed to underperform, thanks in part to a massive writedown on the value of Bebo, the European social network it unloaded earlier this year. Advertising revenue at the company also plummeted.
AOL Launches Open-Source Maps Projects In U.S., UK
Hoping to mount a challenge to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Map’s dominance, AOL’s MapQuest is embracing open-source mapping on a global scale, start…
AOL Misses Estimates, Finds Continued Weakness On Display Revenues
Given Yahoo’s 20 percent jump in display revenues in Q1, expectations for AOL (NYSE: AOL) have been a little higher since its first solo ear…
AOL’s Self-Serve ‘Ad Desk’ To Be Focal Point For Display Efforts
Two months after dropping hints about a new ad platform, AOL (NYSE: AOL) is now opening up beta testing for Advertising.com’s “Ad Desk,” a…
Low Expectations Help AOL Beat Street
In its first earnings since the Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) spinoff, AOL (NYSE: AOL) beat analysts’ estimates with a $1.4 million profit — vers…
AOL ‘Significantly Reducing UK Staff’; Closing Sweden, Spain, Germany, Paris
By Mark Sweney: AOL (NYSE: AOL) has moved to shut down many of its European offices after failing to reach a target of cutting one third of…
AOL Begins New Round Of Layoffs; 1,100 Accepted Buyouts Offered In November
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is announcing a “limited number” layoffs today, as not enough staffers applied for the voluntary buyouts the company said it…
Citi Media: Armstrong: Focus Is On Improving Search, Local; Web Services Must Be Self-Supporting
AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong arrived at the company nine months ago and found morale suffering badly, primarily because the company was…
Sphere Founder Gets Funding For New Startup
Tony Conrad, who founded and later sold Sphere to AOL (NYSE: AOL), has raised funding for a new startup he is calling PumpkinHead (thus the…
RepairPal Gets $4 Million For Car Repair Site
Car repair info site RepairPal has raised $4 million in a first round of funding led by Tugboat Ventures. The two-year-old site lets users l…
Bewkes Memo: ‘More Content-Focused Time Warner’
For a look at the talking points about Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) sans albatross AOL (NYSE: AOL), here’s CEO Jeff Bewkes’ memo to staff. Much o…
AOL’s Independence Day; Armstrong: ‘Today Marks A Rebirth’
Fresh from last night’s big celebration of its spinoff from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), AOL’s first official act of independence was a conferen…
Welcome To The New AOL
Last night, Tim Armstrong and team celebrated independence from Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with P.…
JP Morgan: AOL Will Hold Back Its Ad Inventory From Advertising.com
JP Morgan analyst Imran Khan first floated the idea that AOL (NYSE: TWX) should remove its inventory from the company’s Advertising.com and…
AOL’s New Image: Animated Edition
Late Sunday evening, AOL (NYSE: TWX) released a static tease of its new branding identity but without any context. Here’s the animated versi…
AOL’s New Branding Trades Iconic Running Man For Goldfish
AOL (NYSE: TWX) just released its new branding look — one consistent typography showing “Aol” with different literally hundreds of “reveals…
Time Warner Will Spin Off AOL On Dec. 9; ‘AOL’ Stock Symbol Returns
Updated: One more piece of separation anxiety has been settled: on Dec. 9, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) shareholders will get one share of common…
Former AOL Execs Falco, Grant To Draw Salary, Bonuses Through 2010
As AOL (NYSE: TWX) heads toward its spinoff from Time Warner, the former team of Randy Falco (pictured, left) and Ron Grant, who were ousted…
AOL’s Coming Big Layoffs & Restructuring Costs: $200 Million
AOL (NYSE: TWX) announced about 100 layoffs earlier this week and more to come, along with continued restructuring. In an SEC filing, AOL (u…
AOL Begins Layoffs; 100 To Be Let Go Today
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is laying off 100 staffers today, sources tell paidContent, confirming earlier reports by AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher and Vall…
Bewkes Asks Analysts To Imagine Time Warner Without AOL. Pretty Please.
It’s not quite the first day of the rest of their lives — that will come when the split is official — but Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes want…
AOL Spinoff: Stuff That Time Warner Will Retain, Including Corp Jets & Venture Investments
More from AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc’s spinoff filing this morning: some details on what all Time Warner will retain, besides the possibility of AO…
Interview: AOL’s Levick: Still Shopping; Ad Exchange Model Not A Fit
Taking a break between panel discussions at Advertising Week in New York, AOL’s Jeff Levick, president of Global Advertising and Strategy, o…
Interview: AOL’s Armstrong: You’re Going To See More Changes
Following a roundtable breakfast with the new *AOL* to kick off Advertising Week, I caught up with CEO Tim Armstrong and got in a few questi…
A Year Late, AOL Launches Spinner Music Blog In UK
Fifteen months after it first said it was going to launch a UK version of its Spinner music blog, AOL (NYSE: TWX) has finally done so. The n…
AOL Reorgs UK Sales Team As Platform-A Brand Fades Away
Now that AOL (NYSE: TWX) has crossed out the Platform-A brand in favor of AOL Advertising, the company is moving to restructure its UK ad sa…
The New AOL LLC Details: Search Bidding War By Next Year; $90M In Restructuring Charges
Some more details gleaned from AOL (NYSE: TWX) Inc’s first new filing with the SEC. We reported on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Patch transac…
The New AOL Inc of NYC, Vs the Old AOL LLC of Dulles
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Interview: AOL’s Levick: ‘Platform-A Didn’t Make Us Work Better; It Just Made Clients Confused’
One of the big pieces of news was that came of out AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Tim Armstrong’s 100-day presentation to the company’s staff was the f…
Liberty Media CEO Hints At Interest In AOL
Is Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) once again interested in purchasing part of AOL? In an interview with CNBC this morning (via Tech Trader Dail…
Bewkes: Spinning off Time Warner Cable, AOL Lets Us Concentrate On Content
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes opened the company’s annual meeting by highlighting two recent spinoff plans, that of T…
Time Warner Board Approves AOL Spinoff; Dial-Up Business To Remain With AOL
As expected, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) (NYSE:TWX) confirmed that its board of directors has authorized the spinoff of AOL — making the intern…
Updated: Time Warner Ready To Move On AOL Spinoff; Announcement Likely At Thursday Board Meeting
The long-awaited spinoff of AOL is almost near, as Time Warner’s board of directors will make the final decision at tomorrow’s board meeting…
Greg Coleman’s Previous Ousting: How He Did Financially
Greg Coleman’s ouster at Platform-A (NYSE: TWX) isn’t the first time he has been pushed out of a top executive job. Flashback to 2007 and Y…
Time Warner Earnings Call: AOL’s Display Fell 17 Percent; Search Was Down 12 Percent
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) CFO John Martin offered some more details on AOL’s 23 percent revenue decline in Q1, which he attributed generally t…
Time Warner Getting Ever Closer To Spinning Off AOL
By now, Time Warner’s spinoff of AOL (NYSE: TWX) is almost a foregone conclusion, even though it hasn’t actually happened yet. Today, the pa…
In Switch, Bebo Looks To Advertisers To Fund Its Web TV Programs
AOL-owned social network Bebo is switching the business model for its original online video content and inviting advertisers to entirely fu…
Google's Tim Armstrong Joining AOL As Chairman And CEO: AOL's Reorg History In Links
Some highlights on AOL’s past reorgs below:
— AOL Hands Out The Pink Slips Today; Cuts Are Part Of Previously Announced Reorg
— Industry…
Google, AOL's MapQuest In A Tight Race For Traffic, Ad Dollars
Google Maps has overtaken AOL’s MapQuest in terms of unique visitors — with 42.2 million monthly uniques in January, to MapQuest’s 41.5 mil…
Google To Time Warner: We’d Like Our Money Back
Updated: Google has demanded that Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) either spin off AOL as a separate public company or buy Google
Google’s $726 Million Writedown On AOL Is More Painful For Time Warner
In its earnings report and conference call with investors, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) boasted of its Q4 performance and essentially pinned the blam…
AOL Reorganizes Products Division Following Conroy’s Departure
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is reshuffling parts of its products division following the departure of Kevin Conroy as AOL
AOL Cutting Off Uncut Video Service; More Squeeze On Third-Party Vendors?
AOL (NYSE: TWX), as part of its efforts to trim the non-core and no-revenue-generating parts of its portfolio, is closing down the AOL Uncut…
Spurned Microsoft Scorns Yahoo
Looks like Yahoo’s Jerry Yang’s ham-handed handling of the Microsoft offer is coming back to bite him. At a Friday business lunch…
Earnings Call: AOL Margins Highest In Years But Cost Cutting Not Done
The incessant restructuring of AOL (NYSE: TWX) over the past couple of years finally seems to be paying off in at least one area: expenses a…
‘New’ AOL.com Homepage Goes Live With Lifestreaming, New Themes, And More
If all goes as planned, by the time you’re reading this the new version of the AOL.com homepage will be live — complete with new themes and…
Reports Say Yahoo, AOL Doing Due Diligence For Tie-Up, But Sources Tell Us Not So Fast
Are Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) finally getting ready to merge? Reuters reports that the two companies are now doing due diligen…
AOL Pulls Plug On Yourminis Start-pages
Time Warner’s AOL (NYSE: TWX) is pulling the plug on yourminis customizable start-pages, less than a year after buying Goowy, the San Diego-…
Google: AOL’s Not Worth $20 Billion Anymore
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has filed its 10-Q quarterly, and some interesting language about how it continues to value its 5 percent stake in AOL:…
Time Warner Call: AOL Split On Track, But Options Open On Sale Of Access; Prudent Aquisitions
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) is making good progress, says CEO Jeff Bewkes, on curating the proper portfolio of assets. Cable is obviously on tra…
AOL’s Dial-Up and Portal Split Done; Cue Up the Candidates
Time Warner has completed the financial work necessary to split AOL’s business into two: one its fast-declining dial-up business, and the ot…
AOL Trimming Up For Sale; Sun Sets On XDrive, AOL Pictures, Mobile And Others
Some belt tightening has started at AOL (NYSE: TWX), as it prepares and dresses itself up for a sale: It is discontinuing some of its tech p…
There’s Us Too: AOL Intensifies Talks With Microsoft and Yahoo On Possible Sale
AOL (NYSE: TWX), feeling a bit left out in the last few weeks as things turned really ugly in the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Microsoft and Carl Ica…
Games2Win launches Ad Gaming Network; AOL To Launch Advertising.com
— Games2Win has announced the launch of its gaming ad network called Inviziads. The service requires developers to integrate the ad code a…
Microsoft Not Done With Yahoo, Circling For The Kill
You know the joke about Microsoft — they normally get things almost right on the third try. After failing miserably to get…
AOL Launches Indian Version Of Men’s Portal Asylum
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has launched the Indianized version of its international men’s lifestyle site, Asylum.in. Although the release claims the In…
AOL India Launches South Cinema Channel; Stick Cricket Game
AOL India has tied up with Galatta.com for movie content related to South India, an AOL (NYSE: TWX) spokesperson confirmed to ContentSutra.…
AOL India Allows Users To Send SMS Via Email And Mobile
AOL India is trying to drive signups by offering users free SMS services via mail and messenger. Subscribers are offered the facility to sen…
Microsoft to Yahoo: Take a Hike!
Now that Microsoft has withdrawn its bid for Yahoo, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet company is facing some rocky times, which leads us to believe that Microsoft might come back to the table, and offer a lower price for Yahoo. Continue Reading.
AOL Quietly Creates Female-focused Lifestyle Site; Editor Must ‘Get’ Renee Zellweger And Amy Sedaris
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is stealthily creating a new lifestyle website aimed at younger women … Mediapost reported, citing a job posting on Journa…
Yahoo’s Google Test Positive; Moving Closer To An Alternative?
Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) two week test of using Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) search ad technology is bearing positive results a week into it, thus poss…
Yahoo-AOL In Advanced Talks on Combining
Well, with its announcement of a two-week Adsense trial, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is finally playing a very public hand with Google
Yahoo-AOL: Will It Happen Finally? In Advanced Talks on Combining
Update: Now WSJ is reporting the same thing, three hours later: that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX) are in serious advanced talks on…
AOL Sells Its Last Call Center To Aegis
So it has finally happened: AOL (NYSE: TWX) has sold its call center operations in India to Aegis BPO Services, a part of the Essar Group, r…
AOL’s Sudden Implosion: On a Journey To Nowhere
In one of the most scathing feature stories on AOL (NYSE: TWX) since the new management came in, FastCompany’s latest issue dissects what le…
AOL To Sell Call Center Ops To Essar Group: Report
AOL (NYSE: TWX) is selling its call center business in India to Aegis Communications in an all cash deal of around $100 million, reports the…
AOL Goes Open With AIM
AOL (NYSE: TWX) has opened up its AIM messaging client, the biggest in the market, to third party developers, after years of trying to stave…
Yahoo Looks At Buying More Time; Merger Talks With AOL Could Intensify, With Google’s Blessing
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which is bracing for the start of a proxy fight with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) starting next week, is now trying to buy som…
AOL Plans A Dozen New Websites Within Next Six Months
With portals attracting less traffic and ad money these days, AOL (NYSE: TWX) hopes to build up its numbers in those respective areas by for…
AOL CEO: MSFT-YHOO A Mistake, But We’re Happy With The Blood Spill
AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Randy Falco spoke today at IAB’s annual conference, and echoed what the official and unofficial thinking within Time War…
Feb. 21 Headlines: Google Launches Video AdSense
LightReading: French Firms Take on Microsoft San Francisco Chronicle: Microsoft Opens Xbox Live to Amateurs Seeking Alpha: Wireless Price Wars Likely to…
AOL Joins Club And Announces Open Mobile Platform
AOL (NYSE: AOL) is the latest company to woo mobile developers by offering them tools to make it easier to get their applications on handset…
AOL To Split Audience Business From Access
AOL (NYSE: TWX) will split in two President and CEO Jeff Bewkes, in his first earnings call, said that plans to separate AOLs audience busin…
AOL: Q4 Advertising By The Numbers; Growth Not Expected Until Q2
AOL (NYSE: TWX) expects flat advertising revenue this quarter and Time Warner had to explain that during its earnings call, along with a lot…
TWX CEO Bewkes: AOL Will Split Access From Ads, Audience; Will Make TWC Decision By End Of April
Updated: The Jeff Bewkes era at Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) goes public with his first earnings call — outlining his three-way approach to incr…
Earnings: Time Warner Q4 Revs Up Just 2 Percent; AOL, TWC Announcements On Deck?
As expected, Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reported Q4 revenues of $12.6 billion, up a slight 2 percent from the previous year. Net income in the…
Time Warner Preview: AOL Watch; 75 Corp Layoffs; Time Warner Cable
Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) reports its first quarterly under Jeff Bewkes tomorrow and analysts are predicting rather slim year-over-year growth…
AOL's Morgan To Media Buyers: Fix Your Models Before It's Too Late
The traditional media buying agency model is threatened with extinction from the kind of automated ad serving offered by the likes of Google…
@ Monaco: Video: Dave Morgan, EVP, Global Ad Strategy, AOL: Trying To Find a New Magnetic North
Earlier this morning I did a short video interview with Dave Morgan, the newly appointed EVP of Global Advertising Strategy for AOL. Morgan…
AOL Agrees To Voluntary Redundancy Package For UK Job Cuts
AOL (NYSE: TWX) UK workers have decided not to embark on industrial action to protest upcoming job losses after agreeing terms of a redundan…
AOL Expands Video Search Portal To UK And Other Local Markets
More moves from AOL (NYSE: TWX) to expand its strategy as an online content portal. To help AOL target local advertising around the world, t…
AOL Launches Hindi, Tamil Portals; Truveo Video Search
At a press conference that AOL (NYSE: TWX) held on the sidelines of the Fortune Global Forum, the company announced the launch of local lang…
AOL Europe Job Losses Unclear As US Sheds 1,200 Staff
While the majority of AOL’s job cuts in the US were made clear on Tuesday, the picture here in Europe is still to emerge. We know around 2,0…
AOL To Lay Off 2000 Out of Its 10K Employees
The much-rumored AOL (NYSE: TWX) layoffs have been officially announced, at least internally…Kara has the memo here. “We refocused the bus…
AOL To Offshore 22 Of 39 Editorial Jobs To India, Union Fears – Report
Some more details on the proposed AOL (NYSE: TWX) editorial layoffs in the UK. Apparently, they may be higher than 13 people reported last w…
AOL To Offshore 22 Of 39 Editorial Jobs To India, Union Fears – Report
Some more details on the proposed AOL (NYSE: TWX) editorial layoffs in the UK. Apparently, they may be higher than 13 people reported last w…
More On AOL In Europe: Layoffs In France And Germany, Higher Numbers In UK
Following on from yesterday’s post on AOL (NYSE: TWX) negotiating 13 redundancies in the UK, more numbers are trickling in today: the number…
AOL: Mobile Plans; AOL UK Negotiating Limited Layoffs
A pair of AOL (NYSE: TWX) posts from our sister sites paidContent.co.uk and mocoNews.net:
AOL Relying On Mobile To Recover Ground Lost On…
AOL UK Negotiating With Union Over Proposed Layoffs
With rumours swirling in the U.S. that AOL (NYSE: TWX) is about to announce a hefty number of layoffs, this little item has emerged in today…
Steve Case, Ted Leonsis Launch Online Credit-Card Firm Revolution Money; $50 Million Second Round
Steve Case’s investment company Revolution LLC has announced the launch of Revolution Money, a new credit card firm that will use the intern…
News Sharing: Digg Add Social Networking Elements; Netscape’s New Avatar Propeller Launches
Couple of development in the social news sharing space:
— Digg has added some major elements of social networking to its site, designed to…
AOL Sells Philippines Call Center For $7.2 Million; Launches Spanish Portal
Customers: Time Warner is selling AOL’s (NYSE: TWX) Philippines-based customer care division to eTelecare Global Solutions, a local provider…
AOL’s Platform A: React: Step In The Right Direction, But Bigger Steps Lay Ahead
As AOL (NYSE: TWX) begins combining its various ad units into a single entity called Platform A, a sampling of the ad agency execs the Time…
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: Dick Parsons, CEO, Time Warner: No Spinoff Of AOL Yet
After yesterday’s full court press from AOL executivs, Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons discussed the bigger picture at Time Warner during his a…
Interview: Ron Grant, President & COO, AOL: Part II: ‘Relentless Focus’ On International
More from paidContent.org’s interview with AOL (NYSE: TWX) COO Ron Grant following the announcement that AOL was forming a new ad network ca…
Merrill Lynch Conference: AOL Pitches Its New Strategy To The Street
After a full day of touting the changes afoot at AOL, CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant took their pitch to Wall St., presenting at the Merr…
Interview: Ron Grant, President & COO, AOL: Time For A Network Approach
The latest repositioning of AOL (NYSE: TWX) went public this morning with news that the company is making a full switch to a network adverti…
Bewkes Expected To Be Confirmed As Time Warner CEO Later This Year: Report
Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) CEO change is not necessarily a secret, but WSJ says a decision on JeffBewkes, president and COO, will come before…
As Yahoo Focuses More On Ad Services, The Portal Remains Central
Jerry Yang’s promise of a significant company overhaul within his first 100 days after becoming Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO has been the subject…
AOL Rebrands Netscape Social News Site As Propeller
AOL (NYSE:TWX) has re-branded its Netscape social news ranking site as Propeller.com (not online yet). As we noted last week, AOL had pulled…
Netscape.com's Social News Experiment Dies, At Least For Now
As had been rumored for a while now, the social news site reincarnation of Netscape.com, about 14 months old, is now about to go dead, as th…
AOL Finalizes $275 Million Purchase Of Tacoda
Although it was something of a surprise when AOL (NYSE: TWX) said it would buy behavioral targeting firm Tacoda at the end of July for an es…
AOL To Phase out Kids Sites KOL and RED; No Further Investment Or Sale Planned
So AOL is finally deciding on something…well, almost: AOL (NYSE: TWX) is phasing out its kids and teens businesses, KOL and Red, paidConte…
Ad Growth Slowdown Adds Pressure To AOL's Turnaround
Just as AOL was finding success after reorienting its business model towards advertising instead of providing internet access, the slowdown…
AOL Gives Video Search Engine Truveo New Life As Stand-Alone Site
A year and half after purchasing it, AOL has launched a new, stand-alone version of video search engine Truveo. Billing it as a “one-stop sh…
AOL To Acquire Online Ad Net Tacoda For Around $275 Million
AOL announced this morning that it has a “definitive agreement” to acquire Tacoda, one of the largest online ad nets focused on behavioral t…
AOL, Burnett Postpone ‘Gold Rush’ Sequel; Not Likely To Happen This Year
We had a tip that AOL and Mark Burnett was canceling Gold Rush Goes Hollywood, the sequel to last year’s successful online game show. Not so…
AOL Relaunches News Site In Blog Format
Over the past 18 months, AOL (NYSE: TWX) has proven willing to break a few molds. This time, it’s rebuilding its news site — until now part…
More on HBO Digital Shakeup: AOL JV Head Leaves; Venture To Stay; No Plans For Hiring More
Some more info of HBO’s surprise shakeup of its digital team..well, rather completely doing away with the senior management of its digital t…
Bewkes’ Wishlist: Creating Internet Currency With AOL Spinoff
That is just a thought that they have contemplated, so don’t get excited again: Time Warner COO Jeff Bewkes again raised the specter of an I…
New AOL Search Marketplace Launches To Sell Sponsored Links; Based on Google AdWords
Back in December 2005 when Google won a five-year extension of its search deal with AOL, the fine print included an AOL Marketplace based on…
TMZ.com To Launch DC Spinoff Called TMZDC
TMZ.com, after wreaking havoc covering second-by-second shenanigans of Hollywood celebrities, is planning to do the same for Washington DC..…
AOL Withdraws $900 Million TradeDoubler Bid
After tons of trouble from TradeDoubler shareholders, AOL has withdrawn its $900 million bid for the European provider of online marketing a…
Third Screen Media Looks For A Buyer; In Talks With AOL
Mobile advertising firm Third Screen Media, which has been switching gears between funding and selling, is talking sale again and this time…
AOL Extends $900 Million Takeover Bid For TradeDoubler
AOL is holding firm on its $900 million cash offer for Swedish online marketing company TradeDoubler, though the Time Warner company said it…
AOL CFO Departs; So Does AOL UK CMO
Couple of senior AOL departures:
— first, AOL CFO Steve Swad is leaving (first reported by Valleywag) will join a private-equity firm…CEO…
More AOL Layoffs In Pipeline; Not Large Number
More layoffs are on the way at AOL as restructuring continues, paidContent.org has learned. An AOL spokesman declined comment but we’ve bee…
Falco’s Scaled State Of Mind
Randy Falco, the new CEO of AOL, gave his first public speech yesterday at an iMedia advertising conference, and the site has a full rundown…
Super Bowl’s Fifth Quarter: Online Traffic For Ads Matches The Hype — Even If The Ads Didn’t
Press releases and reports have been trickling in all day about Super Bowl ad-related traffic. A few of the most interesting:
— Akamai, whi…
Liberty Media Yanks QVC Off Web Streamer VDC
Ted Hearn reports at Multichannel News that Liberty Media has told Virtual Digital Cable it no longer has permission to stream QVC, leaving…
AOL, GMC Strike Broadband Video Deal
A deal between AOL, GMC and the Time Warner Global Media Group puts the GM division front and center in three new shows on AOL’s Living Chan…
AOL Looks To Sell Advertising, Not Internet Access These Days
After being written off by industry observers for much of the past few years, AOL appears to have found its true calling: selling online adv…
AOL Won't Raise TradeDoubler Bid
AOL is not budging from the $900 million bid it made for TraderDouble, the European online marketing and ad firm…it made a bid yesterday,…
AOL Offers To Buy European Online Marketing Firm TradeDoubler For $900 Million
AOL is making a huge bet on the European online marketing potential and is offering to buy TradeDoubler, a Sweden-based European provider of…
AOL Sells MusicNow Subscribers To Napster For $15 Million
Updated: NYT is recasting this differently, even though the official release from AOL/Napster did not mention this explicitly: It is a sale…
More on Yahoo-AOL Combination Possibility: Financial Models, Savings Etc
From the same Merrill Lynch report, some more interesting aspects of a possible Yahoo-AOL deal if it happens: “Our models suggest purchasing…
New AOL CEO’s Long View: Probably Not For Sale
Following the restructuring that was announced at AOL earlier today, NYT gets an interview with Randy Falco, the new CEO and Ron Grant, the…
AOL Re-Org Unveiled: Six Business Units Will Report To COO Ron Grant
I’m sure this will spread fast but you probably are reading it here first … As we reported Friday, AOL Chairman and CEO Randy Falco is unv…
Bulk Of AOL’s 26 Percent Staff Reduction Completed Through Layoffs, Sales
Updated: Well, at least the bulk under the plan set out by previous management in August, according to Reuters. Back when Jon Miller was sti…
@ Media Week: CSFB Day 2: TW CEO Parsons On Falco, AOL Strategy
Updated: For an illustration of why Randy Falco is the new chairman and CEO of AOL look no farther than today’s CSFB q-and-a when the interv…
The Yahoo-AOL Trial Balloon, Again
If it sounds like deja vu, you know it is: Yahoo trying to buy AOL, something it tried last year before Google scooped in and bought 5 perce…
The New AOL CEO’s Internet Test
Randy Falco, the new CEO of AOL, who just came over from NBCU TV group, gave his first (or at least the first few) public interview to AP: “…
Meet the new AOL, targeted at the very same people
Sometimes it’s fun to go back to a club you used to hang out in and find out what’s happening there now. That’s what the Times’s David Pogue…
AOL Acquires Financial News & Info Search Technology Firm Relegence; Between $50-100 Million
Relegence is the newest wholly owned subsidiary of AOL following a deal that was signed and closed Monday. No terms were disclosed but Releg…
Latest AOL Restructuring Claims 1,300 Jobs
Some 1,300 employees will lose their jobs as 10-year-old AOL call centers in New Mexico and Arizona close, part of the restructuring announc…
AOL UK Sold For About $687 Million To Carphone Warehouse
The agony of AOL UK’s access business is over: it has been sold: Carphone Warehouse, Europe’s largest mobile retailer, for 370 million pound…
AOL Hopes Users Will Take a Free Ride — AOL OpenRide, That Is
[By Staci D. Kramer] The rush of new offerings from the new AOL — security, storage space, parental controls, mail, phone and more — has b…
Reality Shows Embed Themselves Deeper into the Web; Agencies Looking Beyond Preroll Ads
The lines between homegrown and professionally funded content continue to get blurrier, so much so that the Journal has finally taken notice…
ETC @ MIT: Jonathan Miller: AOL Can Identify Trends, Will Win In Mobile
In the day’s second keynote (why is every talk at an event nowadays called a keynote?) AOL chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller flew much closer…
Network Live JV Dissolves; Production Team Tries Again With New Name, MSN
I was in the midst of finishing up a post confirming the failure of the complicated one-year AOL-backed joint venture known as Network Live…
Time Warner Sells AOL France To Neuf Cegetel For $365 Million
After exclusive talks, Neuf Cegetel has agreed to buy AOL France for $365 million in cash; the ISP business includes 500,000 broadband custo…
Orange Pulls Out of AOL UK Bidding; Bidders For Tiscali UK
Some update on AOL UK’s bidding: France Telecom’s Orange unit has pulled out of the bidding for the UK arm, reports Times Online, though Mur…
AOL To Restructure To Simplify; Internal Memo
Updated: This was expected last week after Ted Leonsis announced his intention to step back from AOL: the portal will reorganize its busines…
Communacopia XV: Bewkes: AOL’s Growth Faster; No Piecemeal Time Inc Sale
At the same conference, Time Warner Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s COO, told investors that its AOL open-web strategy had attracted new users…
Telecom Italia Buys AOL Germany’s ISP Business For $852 Million
So finally, a sale for AOL’s European subsidiaries, after months of bidding: AOL Germany has been sold for a has been sold to Telecom Italia…
AOL’s Ted Leonsis To Give Up Duties; Stay on As Advisor; Management Reshuffle
AOL’s Vice Chairman Ted Leonsis will relinquish his operational duties at the end of the year, reports WSJ. Leonsis is one of the last remai…
AOL Germany Bids Top $766 Million: Report
AOL has received bids of more than $766 million for its German division, a source close the negotiations has told Reuters — far higher tha…
Privacy Breach Costs AOL CTO, Two Others Their Jobs; Privacy Taskforce Started
Updated: AOL CTO Maureen Govern, who came on board last September, is out the door following the release of search data that could be traced…
Time Warner to Restate Earnings For Online Ad Transactions In 2000-2001
As if there weren’t enough troubles hovering over Time Warner, another one: it will restate its financial results after an independent audit…
AOL’s GameDaily Buyout: About $3 Million
So we found out from sources (read our earlier story on the deal): the sale price for GameDaily is about $3 million…which is not much of a…
AOL Buys Games News and Info Site GameDaily For About $3 Million; Transitioning AOL Games Into It
Updated: We found out that the sale price was about $3 million..see our separate post on that here.
GameDaily, which has been on the block f…
TW Says Parsons Will Fulfill Contact; Report Has Parsons Running For NYC Mayor
It’s definitely August … New York mag says “it’s all but official” that Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons will hand the company ov…
AOL Acquires Userplane To Expand Web-Based Chat and IM; Social Networking Angle
Updated: Rafat adds: The deal is in the $30-40 million range, my sources say. Truveo, the video serach firm AOL bought, was around $50 milli…
AOL Apologizes For Releasing Keyword Searches As Research Tool
In the midst of its reshaping campaign, AOL is getting attention for the wrong reasons. An effort to provide data to the research community…
AOL’s Expanded Video Site Now Live; AOL Video Store Open For Biz
The latest iteration of AOL Video is live (beta, of course) and, so far, while it has elements that may seem familiar from other sites, it d…
Reshaping AOL: Cutting Up To 5,000 Jobs In 6 Months; Free 5G Storage En Route
The fallout from the AOL restructuring: it will cut as many as 5,000 jobs, or a quarter of its global work force, within six months, reports…
TMZ.com May Add A TV Newsmagazine Show
TMZ.com’s milking it to the fullest…the online celebrity news and gossip site backed by AOL and Warner Bros.’ Telepictures Productions is…
AOL’s Future on Europe: The Details
Besides the new plans for AOL in U.S., some details on the future of AOL in Europe, especially in UK, France and Germany, also came out duri…
Detailing AOL’s Change Of Course; Reshaping The Access Business
I can’t seem to shake this mental image of the yellow AOL running man racing by yelling, “Free at last!” … although, after this morning’s…
AOL Promo Campaign For New Access Strategy Already Underway
This image is from the front page of AOL Explorer. Screenshot here.
New AOL Strategy Detailed; No More Charges For E-Mail, Other Broadband Sub Services
Time Warner executives confirmed today that the company is taking the most drastic step yet when it comes to AOL — forgoing billions of sub…
AOL Portal May Be Stumbling Block For ISP Sale In UK
As if AOL wasn’t having enough troubles selling its access business in UK, a report from The Guardian suggests that the sale process has now…
More On AOL’s Video Plans
A little more detail about AOL’s expanded video service. (Preview screenshot) AOL Video is a cross between a multi-channel distributor and a…
AOL Expanding Video; Adding Download Sales; Garden Wall May Be Yanked Down
AOL is continuing its video push with long-expected download sales, expanded ad-supported video including movies from Time Warner sibling T…
Steve Case Is “Sorry” For AOL-TW Merger, Sort Of
I’m torn between thinking former AOL Chairman Steve Case can’t apologize enough (maybe he could put it on a button and just wear it all the…
AOL To Unveil New Strategy Aug 2
This statement just came out from Time Warner/AOL: “Time Warner…will present the future business strategy of its AOL division at a separat…
Dan Rather in Talks With AOL on Gig
Dan Rather, who has just signed a deal with Mark Cuban’s HDNet, is also having talks with AOL, reports HR. This is one of the several projec…
AOL’s Plan for a Clean Break
A good overview of why AOL plans to get rid of its ISP business, and some of the outcomes. AOL CEO Jonathan Miller will most likely say that…
More on AOL’s Free Services Plans: Cable/Telco Partnerships; Which Content; Copying Yahoo
More details leaking out in stories about AOL’s plans to offer its suites of services for free, expanding on its AOL.com open-Web access mov…
AOL May Offer its Suite Of Services For Free; $2 Billion May Disappear
The other shoe has dropped: AOL is considering offering its entire menu of services — including e-mail, virus protection and other security…
Orange’s Frontrunner For AOL UK’s Access Business: Report
The act and mouse game continues on AOL UK’s bidding: now the Sunday Telegraph says Orange, the mobile operator owned by France Telecom, has…
TMZ.com’s Rise, Based in Video Clips
NYT has a good profile of TMZ.com, the celebrity news and gossip site which is backed by AOL…as the story says, a lot of its popularity is…
T.Italia Bids for AOL’s French, German Units; Also Permira
Tlecom Italia said it has made an offer to buy AOL units in France and Germany, part of the Italian telecom operator’s push into broadband m…
AOL, Fusion Team Up For Broadband Action Sports Channel Lat34.com, JV
AOL and Fusion Entertainment are pairing up in a joint venture to launch Lat34.com, a broadband sports channel. (Ijn case, you’re latitude c…
Telecom Italia Is Interested In AOL France, Germany Ops
Not much detail but Telecom Italia Chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera told journalists in Milan late last week that the company is considerin…
AOL UK Launches Ad-Supported Portal; BSkyB Balks At Access Business Price
UK satellite player is balking at a
AOL’s Miller: As Clear as Mud
So says Cynthia, after listening to AOL CEO Jonathan Miller speak/present at Deutsche Bank’s Media and Telecommunications conference: “Mille…
Netscape.com Relaunched As a User-Driven News Aggregation Site; Calacanis is GM, Netscape
Netscape.com, the website behind the storied browser company, is being revived (as we first reported here in March) and has launched in publ…
Sky Takes Lead in AOL UK Bid Contest; BT Sits Out
So says this Telegraph story….BT Group has ruled itself out of bidding for AOL’s UK operations (nt the website…just the ISP operations),…
BSkyB and BT Likely Frontrunners In AOL UK’s Sale
So says Guardian…looks like things are moving fast in the sale/auction proceedings AOL’s UK arm…it says that BkyB (controlled by News Co…
Carphone, BT and Vodafone Contacted To Buy AOL UK Business
AOL UK, which has been put up on sale (along with a few other Euroepan subsidiaries of AOL) according to reports, has generated interest fro…
AOL U.K. Looking For Buyer Or Partner?
Time Warner and AOL aren’t confirming or denying but it would make sense given the current shopping of AOL Germany and AOL France. According…
Time Warner’s Synergy-vs Adjacencies Spin
WSJ has discovered Time Warner fiefdoms, and dubbed this as the TW’s new strategy: de-emphasizing synergy, and nwo calling it adjacencies. W…
AOL Acquires Broadband Ad Company Lightningcast
The subhead on the press release explains the goal — “Lightningcast and AOL’s Advertising.com Join Forces to Form Leading Video Advertisin…
Doppelganger Launches Virtual Teen Club; Deal With AIM
The PCD Music Lounge, San Francisco start-up Doppelganger’s virtual nightclub for teens, opens to the public today. No subscription fee. Ins…
AOL Buys Games.com From Infogrames/Atari
The troubled video gaming firm Infogrames, the parent of Atari, has sold a bunch of its assets, and as part of that, has sold its casual gam…
AOL Buddy List’s Social Network Expands With AIM Pages, Phoneline
The way AOL execs pitch it, the AOL Connections strategy is all about giving users ways to communicate whether it’s IM, file sharing, video…
AOL Europe Hires Banker For Sale Options
Time Warner has hired Citigroup to explore options for its AOL Europe unit, including possible partnerships or the sale of parts of the busi…
AOL Planning To Dole Out Free Phone Numbers To AIM Members
This is a big move from AOL, in an effort to protect the turf of its only leading too, AIM. It is planning to launch by the end of the month…
Leonsis On AOL: “I Feel Pretty Good”
The top bullet points out of yesterday’s TWX earnings: cable, great; AOL, ad growth promising, overall disappointing. But Ted Leonsis, vice…
Earnings: Time Warner Profits Up; AOL Revs Down; AOL Ad Revs Up 26 Percent
The Q1 earnings for Time Warner are out: earnings are up to $1.5 billion from $915 million a year ago. Revenues rose 1% over the same period…
AOL’s Need For Another Hit?
NYT does a half-nuanced story on AOL (which is better than no perspective..worth a read)…the media and analysts’ expectations after the se…
@ Milken: AOL’s Cyber Pavillion Is Da’Bomb
Ok..my lame attempt at a hip headline, but AOL’s CyberPavilion here at the Milken conference is very cool, big and airy. The connection is f…
@ Milken: Media Convergence: Edgar Bronfman, Mike Kelly, Et Al: The Razor Edge of Obscurity
The first media pane of the day: It started out as a boring panel…at the end of the day, it is all about the moderator. But the panelists…
Opening Up AOL, Jason-Style
Anyone who has worked or AOL or knows the AOL rank and file knows that they’re the most demoralized bunch among any Internet company (not co…
Rumor Control: AIM-MySpace Hysteria
Get a grip, people. The warp-speed rumor, started by Dave Winer and fueled by Jason “AOL exec” Calacanis that AOL will use AIM to compete wi…
AOL Europe May be Considering Sale
That’s according to a report in Telegraph: it says Time Warner has appointed Citigroup to carry out a strategic review of AOL Europe..it may…
@ CTIA: Interview: Kevin Wall, CEO, Network Live: New Vertical Launch Will Be Earlier Than Planned:
[By Staci D. Kramer] Caught up with Kevin Wall after his session near the end of Billboard Mecca conf at CTIA. It’s been more than 8 months…
America Online Is Now AOL
AOL is now, really, just AOL…America Online has renamed itself as AOL. The official reason: “We literally got America online..better refle…
Nearly Three Months Later, Still No Definitive Agreement For Google, AOL
Google and Time Warner trumpeted a deal for the search company to acquire 5 percent of AOL for $1 billion last December; the agreement inclu…
AOL-WB’s In2TV To Go Live Wednesday
Its ambitious (some would say irrelevant) online classic TV project In2TV will go live Wednesday (it has been in beta for some time). Plans…
Industry Moves: Bill Crandall Appointed First Editor-in-Chief, AOL Music
Bill Crandall, formerly music editor for RollingStone.com, is joining AOL today in the newly created position of editor-in-chief, AOL Music.…
AOL Open Up AIM To Outside Developers
AOL’s learning fast: it is opening up its market-leading IM service AIM, through a new site, Developers.AIM.com, that will enable software d…
AOL to Charge Same for Dial-Up, Broadband
This is significant, if only because AOL still sees value in chasing access customers, despite a new push to the open web AOL.com. So it has…
Parsons: “I think AOL is going to surprise a lot of people going forward”
He sure hopes so … In an interview conducted before news that Carl Icahn may be pulling back from his scorched-forest efforts to change Ti…
Analyst: “On-going Unhealthy Tension Between AOL and TW Cable”; Mags Shoud Be Spun Off
The headline on the note initiating Pali Research coverage of Time Warner is an atetention-grabbing “We Would Vote For Icahn Unless TWX Move…
Logan: AOL Has Strategy In Sync, Time For Results(reg. req.)
Don Logan has fewer responsibilities these days at Time Warner — he’s now non-executive chairman of Time Warner Cable — but plenty to say…
AOL Content Deals: Kutcher’s Katalyst Films Will Produce Exclusive Comedy Series For AOL, AIM; AOL,
AOL.com and, in what could be a first, AIM will share the results of a new production deal with Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, the creat…
Icahn-Lazard Report: React: Parsons “Underpromised & Overdelivered”
David Carr’s turn to chime in on the Icahn-Lazard report issued last Tuesday. Just a taste …
— “‘What then is the problem?’ Mr. (Bruce) W…
Icahn-Lazard Report: React Mixed
— NYT: : “Mr. Wasserstein’s firm is to be paid more than $5 million for every $1 increase in Time Warner’s share price. … Some analysts a…
Icahn-Lazard Report: Online Publishing Presence
Anything that goes all the way back to Pathfinder is bound to be less than glowing.
— “Publishing’s online presence has arguably been hind…
Icahn-Lazard Report: Time Warner Responds
: Time Warner was ready for this particular rock to drop, quickly issuing a statement and a letter to shareholders that can be read here. TW…
Icahn-Lazard Report: Reality Check
While we continue to slog through the massive report — remember, we read this stuff so you don’t have to — a few things to keep in mind:
-…
Icahn-Lazard Report: Suggestions For AOL & Valuations
Continuing on AOL from the Lazard report on Time Warner, some suggestions on AOL: (and the valuation financials from page 294-302 are kinda…
ICahn-Lazard Report: The AOL Dream That Went Wrong
The Lazard report on Time Warner has extensive background and suggestions on AOL.
Some points from it (and check out the AOL SWOT analysis c…
@ Dealmakers Summit: Michael Kelly, AOL; Audio
Updated to include audio and disclosure. The Media Dealmakers Summit organized by media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips is happening tod…
@ Dealmakers Summit: Michael Kelly, AOL
The Media Dealmakers Summit (organized by media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips ) is happening today in NYC, at the magnificent Pierre Ho…
@ SIIA Info Industry Summit: Deals Gone Wild; Audio
: An energtic panel led by conference chair Adele Morrissette with Mike Kelly, president, AOL Media Networks; Mark McLaughlin, VeriSignl Den…
Yahoo Vs AOL Reality Series Race: Burnett vs Spielberg?
This is turning out to be a very interesting race, probably more interesting than the reality series these two firms are developing: reality…
AOL’s New Offices: Beverly Hills, Not Santa Monica
Well, again, so much for trusting NYP..the post we had last week about AOL taking up new officies in Santa Monica is not locationally correc…
AOL Attempts High-Speed Reinvention; Launches Online Reality Show
We missed this one last week, but important as AOL continues to reinvent itself following the open-portal. It has announced plans to reinven…
AOL Gets New Santa Monica Offices
No, not from its Weblogs, Inc acquisition, but separate, in my backyard in Santa Monica. AOL, which has had a staff in Culver City, Calif.,…
Broadband Content Bits
AOL Plans Premium Download Service: I am not really sure if there’s much new in this..AOL has been rolling out its video service over the la…
AOL Takes AIM At Social Networking; IAMAlpha.com Does Same For Developers.
Every major portal or network of sites is looking at ways to incorporate social networking into its own space. That’s one reason Viacom and…
Icahn Wants AOL To Merge With Unidentified Smaller Portals: WSJ
Renegade shareholder Carl Icahn, pushing for a breakup of Time Warner, will propose merging AOL and entertainment businesses with smaller In…
AOL Acquires Video Search Firm Truveo; Valued Higher Than Weblogs Inc Deal
It was only a matter of time before video search firm Truveo, Inc., co-founded by CEO Dr. Tim Tuttle and CTO Dr. Adam Beguelin in early 2004…
Google Has The Option To Sell AOL Stake in 2008
So we found out through an SEC filing by Google and AOL on Friday…Google will have the right to sell its new 5 percent stake in AOL as soo…
Time Warner: Parson’s Year-End Staff Message
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons followed up this morning’s news about changes at the top — the promotion of Jeff Bewkes, the reti…
AOL-Google: What It Means For Microsoft
Microsoft a) showed restraint, b) lost a boost in search advertising, c) missed the chance to harm one competitor and partner with another o…
AOL-Google: The Search For Meaning Redux
Safa Rashtchy, analyst, Piper Jaffray (Reuters): “I view it as a generally positive deal for Google… I suspect the video side is the most…
AOL-Google: Deal Details Include Connecting Google Talk, AIM
Updated: As expected, it’s a complicated deal and the press release only covers some of the ground — and even that isn’t very detailed. For…
AOL-Google: Done Deal
Once upon a time, it was AOL investing in fledgling Google, an investment that netted Time Warner a tidy sum when GOOG went public. Now Goog…
AOL Drops Standalone Media Play
AOL is opting for MusicNow’s web-based player over the AOL Media Player software that has been in beta since earlier this year. AMP also ran…
AOL-Google:
Unsung Player Key to Matching Google, AOL:
AOL-Google: Analysts Weigh In
Jessica Reif Cohen, Merrill Lynch: TWX perspective: While we had suggested that selling equity in AOL at current valuations would be a mista…
AOL-Google: Icahn Plays Grinch
Another Carl Icahn press release, this time in the form of an open letter to the Time Warner board protesting the reported planned sale of 5…
AOL — Google: The Search For Meaning
(Corrected links) As far as we know, Time Warner is still in exclusive discussions witn Google over a deal that includes a $1 billion paymen…
AOL-Google: The Deal As Non-Deal
This is the ultimate status-quo of a deal…nothing really changes from what it was. All this does is ward off Microsoft. Other than that, b…
AOL-Google-Microsoft: The Deal Dance History in Links
We covered every little turn in this story….the history of the story through links (reverse chronological order), below:
— AOLGoogle: Som…
AOLGoogle: Some Details Of the Deal
As gleaned through three stories below:
NYTimes:
If a user searches on Google for a topic for which AOL has content – like information about…
More On AOL-Google
NYT: Lots of color. Saul Hansell says AOL rebuffed “aggressive overtures” from Microsoft, opting for Google after the search company agreed…
Report: AOL, Google Now In Exclusive Talks (sub. req.)
Update: The Journal is now reporting that Google would pay Time Warner $1 billion for a five-percent stake in AOL. That would justify TW’s $…
AOL To Drop Personal Classifieds At Year’s End; Will Switch To Classified Aggregator
No announcement yet on AOL’s future search partner — we’re beginning to believe a watched pot really doesn’t boil — but the Time Warner un…
AOL/Time Warner Watch:
What a great present having this settled by the end of the year would be … and what an unlikely one. Now Carl Icahn wants Time Warner to c…
Case: No Return To AOL
Updated: Steve Case took his newly public campaign to dis-integrate Time Warner to the next level with a hour-long live text chat on Washing…
Time Warner Round-Up: Case React; AOL Impact; Talk, Talk, Talk
The obligatory follows to Steve Case’s non-mea culpa are starting to roll out. The NYT reports that “a person close” to said he is not inter…
TW-AOL Merger Architect And Beneficiary Steve Case Urges Breakup; Wants To Free AOL
Welcome to another episode of “As The Worm Turns” wherein Steve Case wakes up one day and decides the last few years were a big mistake. Unf…
@ Media Week: Parsons: Really. AOL Is Not For Sale; Creative Answer Needed For A La Carte
If anyone at the the CSFB lunch crowd was looking for major revelations from Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons — say, the announcem…
AOL Launches Celebrity News Site TMZ.com
AOL-cofunded TMZ.com has launched officially, though it has been in beta fora month or so now, and has “broken” a bunch of stories on the si…
Google Still in Running For AOL; Comcast In Separate Deal Talks
So says AP Reuters in a story, in some contradiction to the WSJ/NYT stories from yesterday…it says it is still a two-horse race bwteen Goo…
AOL Nearing Tie-Up With MSFT On Ad Sales: WSJ
Meanwhile, WSJ is reporting something more than the NYT story below: it says that an agreement with MSFT is nearing, and the two will build…
AOL May Not Sell Stake; Partnership Only
Time Warner may not sell a stake in AOL, but instead go in for an extended partnership with either Microsoft or Google, reports NYT. This is…
Time Warner Close TO AOL Decision
Nothing new on this, really, but just that Dick Parsons, CEO of Time Warner, is close to making a decision about the future of AOL, and that…
AOL Transforms AIM Into Ad Vehicle, Traffic Driver; Faces Irked Users (sub. req.)
AOL’s been on a roll but in recent days two moves have irked some users — the addition of banner ads to AOL Journals and the insertion of t…
Reuters, Microsoft, AOL To Launch Interoperable IM Service For Traders
Updated: read below: Reuters is tying up with Microsoft and AOL to launch interoperability with their IM services, with an intent to focus o…
AOL-Backed TMZ.com Launches in Beta
TMZ.com, the AOL-backed entertainment news site, has launched in beta. The site has been launched with TelePictures Productions, a Warner Br…
In2TV Technology: AOL Hi-Q Uses P2P
NYT has some details on the technology behind the latest AOL-WB launch In2TV (see the post below). Besides online streaming, AOL will offer…
AOL To Launch In2TV in Association With WB
As we hinted back in July when Network Live launched, AOL is planning a big, online-only TV effort focused on shows from older Warner Bros.…
Yahoo Decides To Sit out Of AOL Race; Exclusive Negotiation Period Nearing
Not really a surprise, considering how much overlap there is in the two companies…besides he asking price, of course. Yahoo CEO Terry Seme…
Microsoft Ahead in AOL-Wooing Game
So says this story in NYT: Microsoft is ahead in wooing AOL, but even then reaching a deal has been harder than Time Warner may have hoped.…
AOL Execs: Where Are They Now?
Fortune has a good run down of former high-profile AOL execs and what they’re doing now…Jerry Levin, Ted Turner, Bob Pittman, Ken Novack,…
AOL Buys MusicNow; MusicNet Booted
Updated below:America Online has acquired digital music subscription service MusicNow, from CircuitCity. Financial terms of the deal were no…
AOL: The Relaunch
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch is all I am going to say…keep the lovefest low and shut up and get to work, my advice to AOLer…
AOL Partners With Vegas.com; Launches New Vegas Site With Original Content From Robin Leach
Yes, that Robin Leach is contributing video and a blog to AOL Vegas, a new site launching today in partnership with Vegas.com. Part of the A…
Industry Moves: Steve Case Leaves Time Warner Board
Steve Case, co-founder of AOL and co-architect of what may be the most derided media merger in the last 20 years, is leaving Time Warner’s b…
Why Microsoft Is Talking To Time Warner About AOL
During the q-and-a part of Microsoft’s FY1Q06 earnings call with analysts, CFO Chris Liddell was pressed to explain why MSN lags behind Yaho…
AOL Hires Cheney’s Daughter
Missed this one earlier: AOL has hired Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney…she will work closely with Ted Leonsis, vic…
AOL Talks Continuing With MSFT and Google
That’s according to FT, republished on MarketWatch. Time Warner’s board of directors will hold crucial discussions about AOL’s future at a m…
Miller’s Contract Extended For Three Years At AOL
Time Warner has quietly extended America Online boss Jonathan Miller’s contract amidst ongoing discussions about selling a stake in AOL, wri…
YahooglesoftcastOnline Vs The Naifs; Miller In Jeopardy?
The graphic linked above says it all…part of this story from WaPo on why AOL has so many suitors going after it.
Worth printing out…
Eco…
AOL Will Lay Off Another 700-plus — Mostly From Call Centers; MSFT CEO Mum On Talks
AOL is chopping its employment rolls by another four percent — closing its Orlando call center and laying off the 450 employees there along…
@ MIPCOM: AOL Emerging As Strong Contender In Kids Programming
AOL’s children’s TV channels are proving to be big hits with youngsters, says the story…about 3.5 million children watch AOL’s two childre…
AOL-?: The Best Option Could Be No Sale For Now
Will everyone who’s not talking to Time Warner about AOL please raise their hands? Seriously, the field is so crowded it could get a little…
AOL.com Joins Forces With World Series Of Poker; Premieres AOL-WMG Reality Show “The Biz”
A busy Monday for AOL.com and another couple of examples of the programming side’s emphasis on partnerships.
— AOL is joining forces with…
Yahoo Joins AOL Chase; Regulatory Issues Likely
Updated at 10 PM PST
So say this TheStreet.com story: Yahoo has joined long list of AOL suitors, along with Microsoft one one hand, and Goog…
No, Not Denied Sale, Just Denied Comment
Updated at 9:30 Pm PST: read below:Yes, you lazy journalists…read carefully: Time Warner CEO denied comment on market rumors, not denied t…
AOL’s Fate: Both Sets Of Talks Progressing
Or so it seems from this Reuters story…nothing much else new.
AOL.com Details National Ad Campaign Already In Progress
Somewhat like “premiering” a new TV show that has been airing for weeks, AOL.com “launches” its national ad campaign today nearly two months…
AOL-MSN Start Talking Again On Combining
So says a story tonight on WSJ.com…this is likely to spark another round of frenzied speculation and stories, after the news of the two co…
Web 2.0 Con: Jonathan Miller, CEO, AOL
One of the biggest bombshells in Jonathan Miller’s chat with John Battelle — AOL is rebranding to … drumroll … AOL. Dan Farber provides…
Exclusive: Weblogs Inc Being Bought Out By America Online
[by Rafat Ali] As usual, you read it here first: Weblogs Inc, the blog media company founded by Jason Calacanis (pictured at We Media confer…
Why MSN Should Merge With AOL (and Why Google and Yahoo Have Little to Fear)
(via Battelle) Henry Blodget has started his own blog at InternetOutsider, and has come out with a report (PDF file) on how Microsoft has lo…
Interview: Jim Bankoff, EVP-Programming & Products, AOL
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As EVP-programming and products for AOL, Jim Bankoff lives at what he calls the “intersection of software and content.” He’s also at the c…
AOL : No Longer A Dead Man Walking
It’s time to stop the “shoulda,coulda, wouldas” with AOL and focus on the Time Warner unit’s present and future. AOL.com can’t measure itsel…
Goldman Sachs Communacopia: TW’s Parsons Says AOL Is Job One
Under pressure from Carl Icahn and others to unlock share value, Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons used Wednesday’s appearance to s…
AOL Rolling Out VoIP in U.S. Oct. 4
AOL’s TotalTalk VoIP service launches Oct. 4, promising savings of up to 40 percent off monthly phone bills compared to traditional landline…
MSN-AOL: Deal Could Take Many Forms If It Happens At All
:TimesOnline: Josh Berger, the managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment UK, warned against divesting AOL during a weekend appearance…
AOL-Microsoft: Will Cash-Rich Google Make A Play?
Day 2 of the new hot miniseries. Influential Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine stirred the pot today with a client note suggesting that…
AOL-MSFT Talks: MSN Has Given Up On Portal?
NYT does a follow up story on talks between Microsoft and AOL, and besides the usual details we’ve already covered in the posts below, an in…
MSFT-AOL Talks: Our Extensive Coverage
Our extensive coverage on the stories surrounding MSFT-AOL talks:
— AOL-MSFT Talks: MSN Has Given Up On Portal?
— AOL-Microsoft Talks: Goo…
AOL-Microsoft Talks: Google’s Exposure To It
Just thinking this through: It seems that this is a offensive flanking move by Microsoft, intended to hit Google where it hurts most: revenu…
More On AOL-MSN Talks: Centered Around Paid Search
WSJ reports some more details on AOL-MSN talks: the talks revolve around taking a stake in the TW’s America Online unit, as part of a broade…
Speculation Frenzy: MSN-AOL In Co-op Talks, Not Buyout?
UPDATED: AKA “no reporter left behind.” The Post’s story had just enough detail to set off a round of coverage but none of the stories in th…
Report: Microsoft Talking To TW About Combining AOL And MSN
You never know which reports will pan out … after all, this time last week eBay-Skype sounded off the wall. Today’s hot topic: a NY Post r…
AOL To Launch Ent. Industry Site With TelePictures & Harvey Levin
(reg. req.) AOL is at it again, and is now collaborating with TelePictures Productions (its sister company…part of Warner Bros.), to launc…
Can IM Reshape the Future of AOL?
AOl’s betting everything on the power if its IM, AIM, says this story. Triton, the code-name for the next iteration of AIM that will replace…
AOL News Joins the Big League of News Search Engines
An interesting story about AOL News’ search engine, and how it has quietly and quickly sprinted into a leading news search engine, joining Y…
AOL Refocuses AIM on Web Content
AOL has launched a new version of the AOL Instant Messenger site and a revamped AIM Today screen, focusing on making more of AOL’s content e…
Discontent in AOL UK
Relations between management and staff at a division of AOL UK has descended to such a low that 62% of web journalists don’t trust managemen…
Icahn Pressuring For A Time Warner Split?
Activist shareholder Carl Icahn, who last week was linked to speculation he could be raising his stake in Time Warner, is now organizing a g…
Industry Moves: It’s Official — AOL’s Neil Smit New Charter President & CEO
Following yesterday’s reports, Charter Communications made it official: AOL Business Access chief Neil Smit is the company’s fourth presiden…
Report: Charter Close To Hiring AOL Exec AS CEO
Charter is close to hiring Neil Smit, president of AOL Access Business, as CEO, according to Multichannel News (sub. req.).(I actually heard…
AOL Acquires Wildseed, Forms AOL Wireless Unit
AOL has acquired mobile phone software company Wildseed and will make it part of a new unit focusing on cell phone services. According to it…
AOL Does Buy Storage Company XDrive
As I wrote back in February, AOL had been very keen on buying the online media/files storage company Xdrive…well, now it has bought it, fo…
AOL’s Revenues and Opportunities: Q2 Earnings Call
Time Warner announced its Q2 earnings earlier today and AOL brought in total revenues of $2.1 billion, down from $2.2 billion for the year a…
Earnings: Ad Revenue Up Ahead of AOL Portal Launch; Settles At $2.4 Billion For Lawsuit
Time Warner’s AOL unit lost nearly a million subscribers last quarter, around four percent of its total base. Ad revenues, however, were up…
AOL’s Reinvention: Story # 532
An overview story on AOL’s attempts to reinvent itself as an ad-supported portal. AOL is reportedly spending more than $50 million on a mult…
Why AOL LatAm Failed
The lesson, in one word: localize.
AOL Should Be More Like Apple
Adam Penenberg makes a case for AOL buying a meta-search engine and attacking Google, Yahoo and MSN where it hurts most: paid-search listing…
ABC News – AOL Renew Agreement; Include Portal
The AOL announcements keep on coming with the beta in full swing. The latest content deal is a renewed agreement with ABC News that brings t…
AOL Launches Video Hub In Beta; Promises High-End RSS Feed Search
What should be the most innovative part of AOL’s unfolding portal strategy finally launched in beta today: AOL Video Hub. The Video Hub is o…
AOL Launches Alternative IE Browser
Missed this earlier this week: AOL has released the final version of AOL Explorer, an alternative IE based browser that it has been beta tes…
Earnings: Yahoo’s Semel Says If AOL.com Works Should Be Good For All
Still parsing Yahoo’s Q2 analysts’ call — they covered a lot of ground — but one comment from Chairman Terry Semel especially stands out.…
AOL Taps Three Agencies for AOL.com Relaunch
AOL, which is relaunching AOL.com as an ad-supported portal, has chosen Aegis Group’s Carat Interactive, Omnicom Group’s Atmosphere BBDO and…
Live 8 On Demand: More Than 25 Million Plays In First Week
Updated: You’re reading it on paidContent.org first … according to internal stats, AOL Music’s on-demand library of individual Live 8 perf…
Network Live: AOL-AEG-XM’s Joint Venture: Our Full Coverage
We broke the story yesterday and the follow on coverage today:
— Network Live: Ownership Structure, Investment and Business Model
— Networ…
Network Live: Ownership Structure, Investment and Business Model
As we mentioned in the previous posts below, the joint venture has investment from AOL, AEG and XM. In our first post, I mentioned that the…
Network Live: Press Conference Details
Going on right now…live blogging from the conference listen-in:
Jonathan Miller, CEO, AOL: The partnership has put together new dream team…
More on Network Live: Part 3
As we reported first, the three companies involved, AOL, AEG and XM, have formally announced the company: “Network Live”, in part owned by t…
More on AOL-AEG-XM Venture: Network Live
As we reported first last night, the new AOL-AEG-XM venture is being announced today at a press conference by AOL Chairman & CEO Jon Miller.…
AOL, AEG and XM To Launch On-Demand “Live Channel” Venture
[by Rafat Ali] Update: The venture is called Network Live..some more details here..
America Online is tying up with movie theater/stadium/en…
AOL To Launch An On-Demand “Live Channel” Venture With AEG, XM
America Online is tying up with movie theater/stadium/entertainment giant AEG Group and satellite radio player XM to launch an on-demand “li…
AOL, Live 8 And Online Milestones
Anyone who’s read my work over the years knows I’m not a huge fan of marking internet time by “milestones” but I can recognize one when it’s…
AOL Grants MTV Right To Show 10 Uninterrupted Hours Of Live 8 This Weekend; Negotiates Own On Demand
[Staci D. Kramer] You’re reading it here first … Following negotiations with the Live 8 Trust, AOL Music will be delivering Live 8 on dema…
Morale Tanks At MTV After Live8
MTV is learning the lesson of peddling crap for all these years. According to MTV Executive VP Van Toffler, the Allman Brothers song “Whippi…
Second Look At AOL Video 3.0
Pitched by the company as “a complete streaming video experience for all visitors,” AOL Video 3.0 is integral to the still-to-come AOL Video…
AOL Should Just Buy Plaxo
AOL should just buy Plaxo…I hate the thing…I get so many e-mails from people wanting to update their damn address book. The only reason…
Live 8: Mass Streaming Media Comes Of Age
Beyond the glossy numbers and praise for AOL Music, Saturday’s multiple stream added another milestone: relatively glitch-less mass streamin…
Live 8: By The Numbers
Updated: AOL drew roughly 5 million unique visitors during 12 hours of Live 8 live July 2, with peak simultaneous viewing of 175,000 — and,…
Can VoIP, AOL and Time Warner Cable Just Get Along?
Both AOL and Time Warner Cable will have VOIP offerings…but how will they co-exist is a famously dysfunctional organization? Also, how wil…
AOL's Mojo To Lose Now
AOL had a banner day today…echoing Staci’s sentiments below, I have to say, they pulled it off remarkably well. Much like a lot of people,…
Live 8: AOL Pulls Off Complex Multi-Concert Streaming
I knew for sure that AOL had succeeded in its bid for online musical history when I turned down the sound on my widescreen TV — turned off…
Live8: AOL Has Much To Gain — And Lose
AOL is rolling it all on a technological crapshoot this weekend, betting that the complex, multi-site streaming webcast of Live8 will go off…
AOL Video Search Unveiled To Positive Reviews; Video Play Is Another Story
AOL Video Search is online and it shows some real potential as a search engine, as Gary Price noted on SearchEngineWatch.com. The video play…
It's Official: AOL Latin America Declares Bankruptcy
Really no surprise. AOL Latin America, Inc. filed for bankruptcy in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware under Chapter 11, whi…
AOL To License Live 8 Rights TO MTV, XM and Premiere; Network Deal Soon
Update: I spoke to some people involved with the negotiations, and AOL has rights for US and Canada, and has come to this re-licensing arran…
AOL vs MTV On Live8
MTV is in serious talks to broadcast all or portions of the upcoming Bob Geldof-promoted “Live 8” concert – which, until now, was going to b…
AOL Portal Launches In Beta Without Key Elements
[Staci D. Kramer]
AOL’s new web portal went live this afternoon but don’t expect the second coming as two key elements are missing: the new…
AOL.com Launching In a Few Hours
The most hyped-up Internet launch of this century (I’ll let you ponder over the ironies here) is about to happen in the next few hours: AOL…
As AOL Turns: The Spin-off/No Spin-off Edition
Whenever AOL looks like it’s gaining some traction in its impending web launch campaign, those pesky stories about its future crop up again.…
Obligatory AOL Roundup
Just assume that by the launch of the new, improved free-to-all AOL on June 21 every news outlet imaginable will have posted a story. We’re…
AOL Counts On Live 8 For A Splash
I promise I’m not even posting a small fraction of the AOL stories. The Washington Post’s David Vise goes inside AOL’s decision to opt for t…
Latest AOL Spin: 27 New Channels And Free E-mail
The NY Daily News gets its turn with the AOL web-launch spin machine. AOL Chairman Jonathan Miller says, “This is about keeping us big and r…
AOL Will Spend "Tens Of Millions" Promoting Web Launch At Rival Sites
The run of stories on AOL continues with the NYT’s report that AOL is buying text ads in major search engines that are also its rivals for u…
SBC, Bell South Will Pay AOL To Include YellowPages.com Listings
SBC and BellSouth have cut a deal to include listings from YellowPages.com on AOL Yellow Pages. The deal should be be good for both parties:…
The AOL Web Launch Drumroll Gets Louder
AOL CEO Jonathan F. Miller tells BusinessWeek: “There’s no return to the walled garden whatsoever. This gives the company a chance to play i…
Wall Street Dubs Google Most Valuable Media Company
Google’s dethroned Time Warner as the most valuable media company on Wall Street based on market cap. Google closed Monday at $290.94 share…
Journalist Unions at Portals? In UK, At Least
This is a strange or heartening move, depending on your point of view: in UK, the National Union of Journalists has gained official recognit…
AOL Free Email Launches
AOL free mail service launches in earnest today. Users get 2 gigs of storage, av protection, etc. Paying subs will no longer have a limit on…
AOL Opens Up Audio, Video Technology; IM Next?
Well, it makes sense in keeping with the recent spirit of openness at AOL: it is open-sourcing two plug-ins in Winamp, AOL’s digital media p…
Time Warner Internal Memo: Chairman Dick Parsons Offers Strategic Overview
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons’ annual strategic overview for TW colleagues went out by company-wide email Friday. We’re posting…
Time Warner’s AOL Puzzle: Is There A Solution?
It’s like riding a yoyo. One day, AOL is being praised for being on the right track — offering high-speed access, pushing up ad revenues, e…
AOL Rolls Out DSL Option, Expands VoIP Reach
Even as AOL prepares for the full-tilt launch of its ad-supported web strategy, the company isn’t losing sight of its roots as an ISP. The…
AOL In Biggest Live Concert Broadcast
All of the Live8 concerts, the successor to the iconic Live Aid concerts of 1985, will be broadcast online live and free, on AOL. Five conce…
AOL-SonyBMG Video Deal Reported In Progress
AOL could get exclusive rights to SonyBMG video for $25 million-plus, according to the NY Post(reg. req). AOL already has non-exclusive deal…
Sony BMG Wants $ For VOD; Possible Deal With AOL
Sony BMG is now requiring compensation for the inclusion of its repertoire in online VOD services. The deal might be with AOL, and could be…
Parsons: AOL Spin-Off Possible If Portal Disappoints
Time Warner Chairman and CEO Dick Parsons told his company’s Fortune magazine that he’d consider a spin-off of AOL, with TW keeping a contro…
AOL To Launch Free E-mail
America Online is launching yet another product on the open Web: a free, ad-supported e-mail service tied to its IM platform. Starting tomor…
Dave Matthews Band Exclusive On AOL Music
AOL Music hopes to reprise its success with the Dave Matthews Band concert in Central Park. This time the venue is the Roseland Ballroon in…
AOL’s Free Blogs; Streaming Game Soundtracks
Couple of pieces of news on AOL:
— News.com I: America Online has expanded access to its blog pages, offering anyone who signs up for AOL’s…
Analyst: Sell, Spin-off or IPO AOL: To Get Best Value
The headline for Fulcrum Global Partners analyst Richard Greenfield’s Time Warner/AOL earnings note: “Does Time Warner Need to Take More Dra…
More On AOL, TW Earnings
Earnings: AOL Ad Revs Up 45 Percent, Two Million Subs Left In Last Year
Time Warner’s Q105 earnings release kicks off with words we’re not used to seeing lately — driven by growth at AOL along with cable and net…
AOL Attempts to Lure Customers with AOL PC
(via Gizmodo): This is the AOL equivalent of the Disney or Yahoo PC…the AOL PC. The AOL Optimized PC is the latest attempt at AOL trying t…
AOL Beat Banks in Issuing PassCode Tokens
AOL announced the password technology in Sep…some more details on this. Some skepticism: “I don’t see banks accepting AOL PassCodes,” says…
Time Warner Cable Mulling Wireless
TW is mulling a wireless service: it would be an essential addition to the offerings of their Time Warner Cable cash cow. The idea is to bun…
AOL Sees Boost in Ad Revenue but Still Bleeding Subs
An uptick in advertising — 44% for 3Q04 over the same period last year — helped AOL improve what Time Warner calls “adjusted operating inc…
AOL France To Launch Mobile Service
AOL France CEO Carlo d’Asaro Biondo said the company is planning to launch a mobile telephony service in France during spring 2005.
He said…
More on AOL Layoffs
CNBC is confirming the 700 layoffs…first reported by WaPo. The firing will be done in December….the main reason for layoffs is the fall…
Washington Post says AOL to cut more than 700 jobs
Relying on anonymous sources, the paper reports that the Time Warner Internet unit will slice more than 700 jobs of its 13,000-person payrol…
AOL Members Get More Content
As you probably already know, American Online is priming up AOL.com for the open Web…AOL subscribers now can get content at AOL.com former…
AOL.com Reboots Quietly
AOL.com has relaunched its site, but in a small way, for now…AOL.com is now a portal for subscribers to access many of its service’s featu…
Can AOL Muscle Back?
Into the ranks of the portals, with its relaunch of AOl.com…that’s the big question. “By fishing for ad dollars on a non-subcription site,…
AOL Develops Desktop Search
Following the news last week that AOL is developing an IE-based browser, eWeek reports that it is also developing its own desktop search tec…
AOL Shifts Strategy to Attract More Advertisers, Users
A good overview of AOL’s changing strategy with the rethinking of its “walled garden” strategy. The relaunch of AOL.com, advertising push, e…
AOL Readying Stand-Alone Browser
Why? Why? America Online has been quietly testing its own Web browser, dubbed “AOL Browser,” for more than a month…AOL Browser a standalon…
The AOL.com Launch
Since some of you may be wondering, AOL.com was supposed to be re-launched this week Oct 5, but wasn’t…well, insiders told me that it was…
America Online Launches a New Ad Campaign
America Online will begin a new ad campaign with a new logo and a refocused brand promise, posed as a question to consumers: “Want a better…
Growth at America Online Is Uncertain
(sub. req.) That’s according to Don Logan, who oversees the business for Time Warner, at an investor conference in New York…he said that A…
AOL’s Jonathan Miller On Taking Down The Walls
(via MarketingVox) AOL chairman Jonathan Miller talks about opening the “walled garden,” getting back search dollars, and more…
“I don’t b…
AOL Offering BBC Edutainment
An unusual programming idea will give AOL for Broadband subscribers a wide range of shorts produced by BBC Worldwide’s BBC Motion Gallery, c…
Time Warner to keep AOL … for now
How many time do they have to say that before anyone believes it?
Exclusive: AOL.com To Launch Oct 5
AOL.com is going to launch its new website on October 5, paidContent.org has learned. The site launched in beta earlier this month…more de…
AOL wants developers to get the message
America Online is putting out a call to developers to bring its instant-messaging software to more cell phones…The AOL Mobile Developer pr…
Is AOL More Ad-User Friendly?
AOL Media Networks president Michael Kelly outlined his plan to make AOL “the easiest Internet company to work with.” It includes stripping…
AOL To Launch New Internet Password Tech
A new password technology for consumers being introduced by AOL could mean an end to internet users having to remember multiple login detail…
AOL Builds AIM Robots
Interesting this: AOL is launching sponsored IM bots called “AIM Robots” for its AIM instant messaging system.
AIM Robots are sponsored and…
AOL’s Shopping Site Launches
AOL’s shopping comparison site In-Store.com has launched…funny it has no obvious AOL branding…
Reuters: AOL executives admitted they are…
AOL Loses Lead In Music Entertainment Market To Yahoo
A story which gains relevance in light of Yahoo’s buyout of Musicmatch: Amid all the flap over music downloading in recent months, few have…
AOL Launches Sports Radio Show
(via MarketingVox): Following last year’s foray into live, hosted programming with Radio KOL–a four-hour daily show aimed kids–America Onl…
AOL Begins Testing New Site Revamp
AOL has begun testing its new revamped AOL.com homepage, seemingly part of its strategy to develop it into an open online portal…
They’re…
AOL Expands Shopping Features
Next Monday, AOL will introduce a shopping site called In-Store.com to go along with the company’s revamped shopping section. It will be AOL…
AOL Updates IM
Burger King, AOL Join Digital Music ‘Burger War’
The “burger wars” have become digital, with Burger King and AOL Music on Tuesday becoming the latest big-brand partners to serve up complime…
AOL Gives Exclusive Sneak Peek For Fall TV
America Online will stream the pilot episode of the WB Network’s new show “Jack and Bobby.” AOL will allow subscribers to watch the entire p…
AOL In Microsoft Land
Interesting this: AOL’s getting some of its swagger back, though it wouldn’t admit it: AOL says Microsoft’s proximity didn’t play a role in…
AOL Bets On Netscape, Again
America Online has just released Netscape 7.2, the latest version, based on the open-source Mozilla.
It is a little over a year since AOL sh…
AOL to Sell Cheap PCs to Minorities and Seniors
America Online plans to sell a low-priced PC targeting low-income and minority households who agree to sign up for a year of dialup Internet…
AIM Beta Gets Rich with Features
AOL’s new beta IM client is rich with features, and has some premium options built in as well…Some of the newest features in AIM include e…
AOL’s Still Vibrant For TW
This according to TW CEO Richard Parson, speaking at the UNITY conference…”Being in the online world is going to have increasing value as…
AOL Looking For More Acquisitions
Always trust NY Post to tell you the truth (right…)…AOL is looking for more small acquisitions in key areas…
AOL Developing New Registration Process
AOL is developing a new user interface for the AOL registration process called “Prelude”…but says it is not an indication of any new versi…
AOL to Buy Anti-Spam Firm Mailblocks
America Online has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks in an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam prot…
More with AOL’s Jonathan Miller
Second part of an interview with AOL CEO Jonathan Miller…
On AOL’s whole network of properties, as an advertising proposition: “Part of ou…
AOL’s Jonathan Miller
An interview with Jonathan Miller, CEO of America Online…on dual revenues: “I guess the preface would be to say that I like the idea of tw…
AOL’s Revenues, Operating Income Increase
America Online posted revenue of $2.1 billion and a 13 percent higher operating profit, compared with the same period last year, as part of…
AOL’s Parts With Ad Agency
America Online, which has been working to redefine its brand in a broadband world, has parted with one of its ad agencies, Wieden & Kennedy,…
AOL to Debut WB TV Show Over Broadband
AOL will broadcast a sneak preview of a new TV series, “Jack & Bobby,” over its broadband service, marking the first time a media company de…
Wal-Mart Goes Broadband
Funny promotion: AOL has a new deal with Wal-Mart stores nationwide to air concerts from its Broadband Rocks concert series. The series kick…
America Online Gets Clicking
Yes, subscriber rolls are down, but ad sales and the global business are up. This buys AOL time for its new content strategy to work…
How…
AOL Says It Will Let New Acquisition Maintain Its Course
Jonathan Miller, head of America Online, said yesterday that he plans to take a hands-off approach to running Advertising.com, the growing,…
AOL To Buy Advertising.com For $435 million
America Online has agreed to buy online marketing startup Advertising.com for $435 million in cash, in a move aimed at shoring up its ad bus…
Time Warner Mulls Cell Phone Business
Don Logan, chairman of Time Warner’s media and communications group, said the company is exploring possible deals with cell phone providers…
AOL Quits Enterprise IM Game
The announcement that AOL is ditching its AIM Enterprise Gateway package comes only days after Yahoo, one of AOL’s closest competitors, said…
AOL Puts Pop-Unders On The Night Shift
America Online will begin limiting pop-under advertisements linked to its AOL Instant Messenger service on Thursday, in order to target at-h…
AOL’s Clinton Book Blitz
Is it going to mean anything for AOL in terms of new subscribers…I doubt it..
The blitz: In addition to broadcasting excerpts of Bill Clin…
AOL Unwraps Business IM Service
America Online has launched pay-as-you-go IM service aimed at corporate users…it has formed pacts with WebEx and Lightbridge to enable use…
MSN, AOL On Different Paths
Larry Kramer, CEO of CBS MarketWatch took it upon himself to report from the exclusive D Conference…
An interesting but obvious divergence…
AOL Settles Class-Action Suits
America Online has settled two class-action lawsuits filed over account cancellation procedures for former AOL and CompuServe members.
AOL’s Broadband Push Details
Its’s broadband camapign starts today…Critics are skeptical that AOL can reposition itself. But AOL says the number of its Internet subscr…
What’s StudioAOL?
An inhouse content development and R&D division…This was all I could find on Google….Anyway, they’re hiring a senior project manager……
Is the Netscape Browser Being Reborn or Just Stabilized?
AOL is planning to release a new version of Netcape browser, but whether it will mark a revival of the browser, or simply some life support,…
AOL Touts Music, Sports, And More In Online Ad Campaign
AOL will launch a new $2 million ad campaign for its broadband service, starting June. The purpose of the campaign is to convince consumers…
More Details on AOL’s MyMC Cable Music Channel
More details on AOL’s My MC on-demand cable TV channel, launching now on Time Warner cable: BMG, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music G…
Time Warner Says AOL ‘Stabilized’
At its annual shareholders meeting today: AOL has been “stabilized,” according to a beaming Dick Parsons, CEO of Time Warner. Parsons noted…
Bewkes Is Seen as Likely Heir at Time Warner
Jeffrey Bewkes is increasingly well positioned to become Richard Parsons’ heir apparent at Time Warner, while the other, Don Logan, has been…
AOL Gets the WeatherBug
Not that big a deal, since you can already get weather on other IM clients, but a bigger break for Weatherbug…People who download AOL Inst…
Netscape To Release New Browser, Desktop App
So Netscape’s not dead…it was only suspended, it turns out. The pioneering browser, after being written off by industry observers last yea…
AOLTV: A Different Animal Now
Not their ill-fated iTV experiment back-to–life, but a broadband TV portal of sorts, where they’re streaming TV soaps/sitcoms, clips of bes…
AOL’s Garden Might Flourish Without Rainman
AOL’s recent move of adopting HTML as the coding language for its interface and content–instead of its proprietary programming language cal…
AOL’s Desperation Move
Well, you’ve already read about AOL’s plans to start posting some of its content outside of its walls (read this)…
This is a desperation m…
AOL to Offer Content To Non-Subscribers
In a strategy shift which close readers of this site would have seen coming (the whole unbundling debate etc..), AOL is planning to publish…
AOL’s Value Falls Well Short of $10 Billion
“In this climate, where optimism about the tech sector is again riding high, it’s all too possible that AOL could actually fetch $10 billion…
New Radio@Netscape in Beta
America Online apparently plans to make their Radio@AOL technology available to non-AOL customers with an improved version of their Radio@Ne…
Steve Case Itching to Buy Back AOL
Broker of original deal, he may need $10 billion for bid…Case is said to have approached Time Warner last year about a play for AOL, but w…
America Online Launched Music Download Store
America Online is expanding its online music service to include 99-cent song downloads, through its subsidiary MusicNet…
Subscribers to Mu…
AOL To Webcast TV Show Right After Network Broadcast
(sub. req.): The WB’s “Everwood” TV program will be available exclusively on sister company AOL this Tuesday. AOL will stream the entire epi…
AOL: Dick Parsons’ Options
Sell, spin off, or keep making the best of a flawed enterprise? That’s the question Parsons has to answer…
The key question: What is AOL n…
Unbundling AOL
This is the second time I am using the exact same headline…the first time I used it, about 7 months ago, it was a more speculative, this-i…
AOL Poised to Restructure
(sub. req.): America Online is considering a re-organisation of its business units and internal reporting structure to reflect a new growth…
AOL’s Mobile Content Efforts
AOL is demonstrating its efforts in the wireless space…among the interesting ones to come out in the future:
— Radio@AOL, the online rad…
Yahoo, AOL and Live365 Join For Online Radio
This may be the moment online radio went mainstream, at least as far as marketers are concerned…AOL has signed a deal with an ad sales com…
TW Denies Reports of AOL Sale to Microsoft
Time Warner has not engaged in any talks with Microsoft about selling AOL, a Time Warner spokeswoman said Friday, contradicting a New York P…
Microsoft To Buy AOL?
Time Warner executives have held discussions in recent months with Microsoft about a potential sale of AOL, according to the NY Post…
In a…
AOL has right to buy nearly 2 million Google shares
An interesting situation, to say the least…”It was not clear what the value of the stock would be, nor what percentage ownership in Google…
AOL Moves to Owner’s Front Burner
WSJ reports that even though parent Time Warner is worried about AOL’s fate, it may take a while for it to decide whether to spin or sell it…
TW Mulling Sale, Spin-Off of AOL Unit
Is that necessarily news? Maybe this time, since this is most serius the company has been about it, according to this Post story. Time Warne…
Few Subscribe To Sunny AOL Forecast
Analysts are “dubious” over AOL’s overly optimistic projections of subscriber and revenue growth…
However, Jessica Reif Cohen, an analyst…
AOL Launching Bill Payment Service
Jeff, here’s your rudimentary subscription consolidator…AOL is launching a new service called AOL Bill Pay that lets its subscribers pay n…
AOL Users Log Off Time Warner
So are you surprised? Time Warner warned on Monday that continued weakness in America Online’s subscriber base and tough competition from ot…
AOL to Offer Covad DSL
Covad will handle all billing, customer service and access issues, while AOL offers its familiar interface and content. Subscribers will hav…
AOL Goes Wireless in Canada
AOL Canada, a JV between America Online and Royal Bank of Canada, plans to test its Internet service over a new broadband wireless network.…
America Online’s ICQ Plans Social-Networking Service
(sub. req.): America Online’s ICQ plans to launch a social-networking service Thursday…ICQ (“I Seek You”) sees its offering as mapping out…
AOL Germany Launches Music Service
(via Telecom.Paper): AOL Germany has launched a new online music service from yesterday, with a selection of about 100,000 titles from recor…
AOL in Talks to Re-Enter China
So said AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said at the Reuters Technology, Media and Telecommunications Summit in New York on Friday. “We’re in some t…
AOL Sees Business Buoyed by Broadband
Again, Jon Miller at Reuters Summit:AOL said on Friday it is midway through a recovery as it expects growing profits from its high-speed Int…
AOL’s Not That Interested in Search
Yep, that’s what AOL believes, according to this story: “We’re a content company,” said Gerry Campbell, VP of AOL’s search and navigation. “…
AOL Reduces Its Broadband Products
Slightly confusing, but that’s AOL-TW combo: AOL has stopped offering AOL via DSL and AOL via cable, where the subscriber joins another ISP…
Would AOL Drop Google?
Has AOL given away too much traffic to Google? The portal suffers from “leakage,” said Jordan Rohan, an analyst at Schwab SoundView. How do…
Media Lab Europe Partners With AOL
Media Lab Europe (the spinoff from Media Lab at MIT) has announced a research partner agreement with America Online…The three-year subscri…
AOL Brand Marketing Executive to Leave
Len Short, executive VP of brand marketing at America Online is stepping down…Short held the position for slightly more than a year and wa…
AOL Acquires Tribune’s BlackVoices
(reg. req.): After months of speculation, AOL has finally bought out BlackVoices.com, a popular Internet site serving African-Americans. Ove…
AOL LatAm Loses Members, Shrinks Revs in Q4
America Online Latin America reported a drop in revenue, a reduction in membership and a smaller net loss in its most recently completed qua…
AOL’s Australian Venture Bought Out
AOL’s Australian joint venture AOL|7 has been bought out by Primus Telecom. AOL will grant Primus, under license, the exclusive right to ope…
AOL Reaches Out to Advertisers
America Online took out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal Thursday in an attempt to impress prospective advertisers with results fro…
AOL Launches Live Video Chat, Links to Apple
Say, hallelujah..
AOL May Demand Refund For Super Bowl Fiasco
AOL may demand some of its money back for sponsoring the Super Bowl half-time show, which was botched with the Timberlake-Janet fiasco…The…
AOL to Launch Brand Aimed at Teenage Users
(sub. req.) (read the press release here): AOL is launching an online service for teenagers called “Red”…the service, which replaces and…
Grilling on AOL
TelevisionWeek’s Diane Mermigas gives Don Logan and Jeff Bewkes of Time Warner a tough grilling on AOL: whether they are planning to sell it…
Profitable AOL Europe Shrugs Off Buyout Talk
Time Warner’s AOL Europe Internet chief Philip Rowley said on Thursday the unit’s recent push into the black should dash all speculation tha…
Will AOL’s Ubiquity Save The Day for it?
So believes Richard Parson, CEO of Time Warner, as he spoke at the Q4 earnings conference call today…Asked by Wall Street analysts about t…
AOL Revamps Its Home Page For Broadband
America Online on Tuesday quietly launched a redesigned AOL.com home page in an effort to better promote its broadband Internet service.
AOL’s Unrequited Cable Love
AOL’s year-and-a-half year old deal with Comcast to bundle itself with Comcast’s cable broadband service has still not surfaced…the deal…
Controversial Winamp Creator Resigns From AOL
Justin Frankel, the controversial software engineer who created the Winamp media player, has resigned from America Online.
Also read this st…
AOL News Falls Short On Participatory Journalism
In an effort to get members more involved, the struggling online service is rolling out new and improved polls, chats, video, blogs and more…
AOL Sources Confirm Existence of New Enhanced White List
OK, I want to be on this white list…hey you AOL execs, are you listening?
AOL Reshuffles (Again) to Position for Ad Recovery
More restructuring at AOL: it has created a new division to handle advertising, search and commerce revenues across all of its properties. I…
Marketing Chief to Leave AOL as Ad Sales Plunge
AOL is revamping its troubled ad-sales operation yet again: After only six months at the helm of the ad sales unit, exec. VP Lisa Brown is l…
AOL mulls purchase of BlackVoices.com
AOL is in talks to buy the popular African-American site BlackVoices.com from Tribune…
A deal for the site would mark a return to AOL for…
AOL Readies Netscape ISP
On Wednesday AOL launched its anticipated Netscape discount Internet service in a move to attract people who want nothing more than access..…
AOL in Da House
AOL has announced two in-home networking deals coinciding with CES:
— Digital 5, a maker of content-sharing software, has tied up with AOL…
AOL-Legend China JV Ceases Operation
After more than two years of struggle, operations at AOLLegend, the first Internet joint venture in China, have ceased. AOLLegend was establ…
French ISP Wanadoo Is Interested in AOL Europe
Though AOL doesn’t seem interested in selling its European assets, rivals are drooling: Olivier Sichel, chairman and CEO of French ISP Wanad…
Parsons: better Days Ahead for AOL
So said Richard Parsons, at the Smith Barney conference…Parsons pledged that the company’s AOL division, which has suffered from a downtur…
What If AOL Had Not Merged With Time Warner?
(sub. req.): “While media businesses are shuffled and must tolerate the occasional meddling of various corporate parents, they will ultimate…
AOL Debuts Lower-Priced Internet Service
America Online has launched a preliminary version of a lower-priced Internet service…The modem dial-up service, which debuted earlier this…
AOL Version 2004: You’ve Got News
Read the post below and then read this: it all fits…AOL is aggressively striking partnerships with major news organizations and television…
AOL Wants To Get Out of Content Creation
So says TW CEO Dick Parsons…”What AOL really needs is to create a new business model… I see AOL as a kind of wholesale supplier. They ad…
Lavalife Flows Into AOL’s IM Community
Online personals site Lavalife said Wednesday that it signed a deal to provide content and advertising for America Online’s ICQ instant-mess…
An Inside View of Time Inc and AOL
A detailed interview with chairman of Time Warner’s Media and Communications Group, Don Logan…
On Time Inc content going behind AOL wall:…
AOL to Unveil New Winamp
In an interesting development on the media player side, America Online is expected to release an upgrade for its free Winamp multimedia soft…
NTT DoCoMo Dropping AOL Tie
NTT DoCoMo is dropping its business link with America Online and pulling out of a partnership that runs AOL’s Japanese service.
Update:: CBS…
AOL Tests Low Cost Netscape Dial-Up Service
AOL’s new discount dial-up service, taking up the Netscape avatar, is ready for roll-out. The Netscape Internet service is presently seeking…
America Online proposes Love.com
America Online has launched a preview of its upcoming Love.com Web personals service, which aims to ride the company’s success with instant-…
AOL serves up software for BREW
America Online plans to deliver some of its applications to U.S. wireless customers who use Qualcomm’s BREW software…it plans to begin off…
AOL lays Off 450 California Employees
In an attempt to streamline its business, America Online on Tuesday consolidated its California operations, cutting about half its software…
To Lure Subscribers, AOL Offers $299 PC
(sub. req.): In an effort to lure customers to its lagging online service, America Online is offering a computer and color printer for only…
AOL: ‘Tahiti’ to Ship Early Next Year
America Online confirmed to BetaNews that it plans to launch the next version of its client software, code-named Tahiti, early next year…T…
AOL Acquires SingingFish
America Online has acquired audio and video search service Singingfish…AOL will tap Singingfish technology to let AOL Search users look fo…
AOL gets personal with Love.com
AOL is spinning off its personals service, according to this story…Love.com will use the AIM community as a way for subscribers to get to…
AOL’s Broadband Blues
“But all the content in Time Warner’s deep chest can’t replace dominance of the basic connection used by most Americans to trade e-mail, cha…
AOL mulls toolbar service
America Online division is considering creating a desktop application that lets people access popular services such as search, news and maps…
D.Telekom CEO Denies T-Online in Buyout Talks With AOL
Deutsche Telekom CEO Kai Uwe-Ricke has denied that the German telecoms group’s Internet arm, T-Online was in talks to buy AOL from Time Warn…
Time Inc, AOL Mend Their Differences Over Food
Hallelujah! AOL and Time Inc finally figured out a way to work together: working together. AOL is launching a new area on its service, calle…
AOL Tests Streaming-Video IM Service
America Online is quietly testing streaming video for its instant messaging products now that the government has lifted restrictions against…
AOL Testing Service Upgrade
America Online has begun testing a feature that lets its customers dial in directly to the Internet without launching AOL’s content-heavy so…
Time Inc Plans to Take More Digital Content Behind Pay Barrier
Ad Age does an analysis piece on Time Inc.’s decision to wall off content behind AOL wall: “analysts are starting to applaud Time Warner’s m…
More on AOL-Viewpoint Deal
Update: Viewpoint PR told me that the deal is non-exclusive, so other companies can still license the technology. There are some standard re…
AOL Buys Select Viewpoint Technology For $10 Million
Seems like an effective buyout of the company: America Online has entered into a agreement with Viewpoint, which develops online visual disp…
AOL’s Happy Secret
America Online may be playing down a hidden recovery in its online ad business that will help it pull off a promised turnaround right on sch…
Time Warner’s Net Profit Rises
Time Warner’s Q3 earnings rose sharply as stronger results at its TV networks and cable operations and an investment gain offset weakness at…
AOL To Revive Netscape With Discount Dial Up
So what’s with these Time Warner people and dead horses? AOL is planning to launch a discount version of its proprietary online service, wil…
The Return of Time Warner
AOL Time Warner will revert to its old moniker later this week… Time Warner will also return to using its former ticker symbol, “TWX,” and…
AOL Plans Song Download Service in Europe
AOL Europe plans to launch an online radio station next week and a download service by next spring in Europe…If it hits its Q2 European la…
AOL Tries Hard Sell to Win Broadband Users
AOL will launch a $35 million marketing campaign next week, after the sneak preview over the weekend, explaining its high-speed offerings fo…
AOL Plays Key Role in Time Warner Move to Drop Curtain on Mag Sites
Mark Glaser interviews Ned Desmond of Time Inc Interactive: “To the extent that we really believe in our message, losing a lot of traffic is…
AOL Time Warner Still Into Venture Investing
AOL Time Warner’s early-stage venture-capital arm, AOL Time Warner Ventures, has continued to seek deals, despite the turmoil at the company…
AOL to Debut Service for U.S. Hispanics
AOL plans to tap the underserved Hispanic audience in the U.S. with a new service, to attract new customers and help stave off a decline in…
AOL Lets IM Games Begin
AOL will integrate online games WildTangent produced into its IM service. “AIM 5.5 will include a ‘games’ button that will give people the o…
America Online Resolves FTC Probe
America Online has settled with FTC over wrong treatment of consumers: according to FTC, AOL treated subscribers unfairly over the last seve…
Time Inc May Launch A Dating Magazine, Inspired by AOL
(second story): Time Inc, inspired by the success of online personals business, especially its cousin AOL’s, is planning to launch an inspir…
AOL’s Broadband Play
Jonathan Miller, CEO of AOL: “People sometimes ask me if it’s a paid model or not. I answer by asking them to list all of the free media-ric…
AOL Time Warner Drops “AOL”
The board of directors of AOL Time Warner on Thursday approved changing the media company’s name to Time Warner. CEO Dick Parsons said in a…
AOL TW’s New Branding Strategy
(Yes, I will now have to change my own category name from AOL to TWX!) Following the news that AOL TW will drop “AOl” from its name, the com…
AOL TW to Revert Symbol to TWX
Following the Financial Times story last week about AOL TW’s decision to drop AOl from its corporate name, WaPo reports that the stock-ticke…
“AOL” May Be Dropped This Week
On Thursday the board of AOL Time Warner is expected to endorse a move aimed at rebuilding morale and signalling the future shape and import…
AOL’s Road to Redemption
“We created our own issues at AOL, and we have no one to blame but ourselves,” [Lisa Brown, exec. VP for interactive marketing] said Wednes…
The Essential Cluelessness of Time Inc
Time Inc. Chairman and CEO Ann Moore: “The consolidation of the media is not as big a concern to me as the proliferation of unchecked media…
A Growing AOL Europe Now Sets Example for U.S.
AOL Europe is emerging as an upbeat counterpoint to AOL’s sagging business in the U.S. In the last two and a half years, AOL Europe has more…
Is AOL On Its Way Back?
(via IWantMedia): So think CBS MarketWatch and TheStreet.com, together.
MKTW: “So, is a perception of an image turnaround going to be enoug…
AOL Launches Blogging Service
AOL 9.0 Gets Personal
By collecting data from questionnaires and with users’ permission, AOL 9.0 can deliver personalized listings on TV shows, movies, music and…
The Now-Famous Miller Memo
The memo AOL CEO Jon Miller sent to hos staff: “In addition, you have probably noticed, as I have, headlines like “AOL In Talks on Atlanta S…
AOL Time Warner in Move to Drop AOL Name
AOL Time Warner is considering dropping the AOL name from its corporate masthead…The proposal–made by senior management of the AOL divisi…
SkyStream Gets AOL, Comcast Funding
Video-on-demand technology firm SkyStream Networks has received funding from AOL TW and Comcast as part of a total venture round of $29 mill…
AOL TW’s Warner Music Launches E-Commerce Unit
(subscription required): Warner Music Group’s U.S. sales and retail music marketing arm WEA has launched an e-commerce department, in respon…
AOL Changes Strategy On Software Rollout
AOL is abandoning its strategy of making major changes to its AOL software as part of a single annual release in favor of rolling out fresh…
You’ve Been Bundled: Unbundling AOL
Why won’t AOL unbundle its content pieces and sell them separately to consumers? This, in essence is the billion dollar question…a questio…
AOL Unveils Stand-Alone Apps
America Online has launched AOL Communicator, the stand-alone messaging suite. It includes an e-mail client, an address book, a souped-up ve…
AOL Users to Get EA’s EA’s Club Pogo Games
AOL and Electronic Arts announced today that AOL’s subscribers will get free access to premium online games that EA’s Pogo division otherwis…
AOL Tries to Stop the Bleeding
AOL’s new version, AOL 9.0 Optimized, will rely on improved tools and content to keep current customers from defecting…
According to the s…
B2.0 Tries A 2-Minute Time Trick
As Jonathan Dube mentioned yesterday, CNN.com continues to link to articles from family site Business 2.0, which has closed off its site com…
AOL Taps Technology Strategist
AOL has tapped John McKinley, a former CTO of Merrill Lynch and GE Capital, to direct its technology initiatives. As AOL’s chief technology…
Electronic Arts and AOL’s Deal Details
In a story on EA Q2 results, the company reveals that conslidation EA.com into the main company has cut down the costs, though it declined t…
More on InfoGate: AOL To Integrate It Within AOL Communicator
(read this note first: AOL Buys InfoGate): AOL, which quietly bought InfoGate in March, is testing to integrate the push software into its n…
AOL Profit Up; SEC Disputes Accounting
AOL TW said second-quarter earnings rose sharply amid hit films such as “The Matrix Reloaded,” strength at its popular cable TV networks, an…
InfoGate Bought Out By AOL
Update: Read this: AOL To Integrate It Within AOL Communicator.
This one caught me by complete surprise…the PointCast beast refuses to die…
AOL Tries its Hand at Cash Cards
AOL has started retailing a pre-paid cash cards for teenagers, as part of its unveiling of the AOL 9.0 client, which will allow teenagers to…
AOL Missed the First Wave of Broadband: Miller
AOL CEO Jonathan Miller has admitted his company missed the first wave of the broadband revolution, but claimed the company will reclaim its…
AOL Cuts Netscape Staff; Mozilla Breaks Free
AOL has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary, amid a reorganization of its Mozilla open-sour…
HBOing AOL
Well, no, the story doesn’t say anything about that…written by Phillip Swann of TVPredictions.com, he says: “DirecTV could team with HBO t…
More Details on AOL Blogs
WaPo has more details on AOL blogs, to be launched later this summer as part of AOL 9.0: three ways to update their blogs — online, through…
AOL Soft Launches Video, Music shop
AOL said that it quietly launched a shopping site for music and videos this week, and has stopped linking to its earlier affiliate Amazon.co…
Peek At AOL Blogs
AOL Blogs were unveiled to a select group of bloggers, for their feedback. The biggest features: AOL IM as a client to blog. Jeff Jarvis giv…
Business 2.0 Restricts Access For Print Subscribers Only
This is part of AOL’s much discussed move about hiving off Time Inc’s content for its subscribers only. Business 2.0 is now offering most of…
AOL TW INterested in RealNetworks?
Some rumors on the Street about AOL Times Warner being interested in buying RealNetworks…(see towards the end)
AOL Plugs Content at Retail
America Online is expanding the promotion of its popular music and movies programming into retail stores. AOL is plugging its entertainment…
AOL UK Develops New Mobile Channel
AOL has announced a strategic content and marketing agreement that will enable it to roll-out a range of mobile premium services, provided b…
AOL Looks to Rival Apple Service
AOL Time Warner is following the successful launch of Apple’s iTunes service by selling music downloads, it has confirmed….The new venture…
AOL Picks Wieden & Kennedy for Corporate Branding
America Online has selected advertising agency Wieden and Kennedy to handle its corporate branding as it tries to turn itself around.
AOL 9.0 Represents Streaming Sea Change
In the new beta version of AOL 9.0, the advances in its own Winamp multimedia player have some industry players convinced that its partnersh…
Some See Light at End of AOL’s Dark Days
[The] bad news is a debate over shades of gray — the number of subscribers AOL will lose before its membership stabilizes — rather than a…
The Breakup Scenario For AOL TW
Can Yahoo Buy AOL?
“When the time does come, Internet outfits struggling to boost their own subscription services are logical [AOL] buyers. ‘[Microsoft’s Inter…
An AOL-Microsoft Goliath? Don’t Bet on It
“As big as AOL Time Warner is, it’s just one company in the vast sea of digital-content providers. It’s unlikely that Sony, Universal, or an…
Why AOL TW Must Die
A straight-from the heart-into-the-gut story from Simon Dumenco: “As Time Inc.
Microsoft Settles Netscape Suit with AOL
The companies announced a seven-year pact under which AOL will use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browsing technology for free over the next…
AOL Founder Said to Consider a Spinoff
Steve Case has begun to talk favorably of undoing the deal by spinning off AOL, but a deal is unlikely.
AOL Offers Entertainment Alerts
America Online has begun offering its members an entertainment e-mail service–The e-mails, free to AOL subscribers who sign up for the serv…
AOL CFO Confident in Online Unit’s Turnaround Strategy
AOL Time Warner CFO Wayne Pace acknowledged that the company’s America Online unit is seeing demand for narrowband slip faster than the comp…
AOL Names New Broadband Chief
America Online announced Tuesday that it has promoted former entertainment division head Kevin Conroy to run operations for its broadband se…
Free ‘Expressions’ No More
America Online has started charging a small fee for the Expressions for AOL Instant Messenger users. Expressions — downloadable skins or th…
AOL’s New Tune Picks Up the Tempo
The emphasis on broadband inside America Online has moved from the sidelines, with only eight employees a year ago, to become the centerpiec…
AOL Broadband Head Sees Good Future
The president of AOL Broadband Lisa Hook said Tuesday that the company has seen striking success in merging television content in the broadb…
In HBO, AOL Sees a Sibling and, Crucially, a Role Model
So this is big news, and something I have also been saying about AOL: HBO is their most valuable property, NOT Time Inc. “His plan is to sel…
America Online Dials in Symbian
America Online and Symbian, a developer of advanced cell phone operating systems, have announced a deal to bring AOL services to more cell p…
Online Unit Pinches AOL Revenue
AOL Time Warner disclosed that it incurred a $54 billion noncash write-off of goodwill and said its online unit put a drag on revenue.
For…
AOL’s Wobbly World Wide Wow
“AOL management isn’t willing to risk anything to find out. The result is an underwhelming growth strategy. Instead of the fabled keep-it-si…
AOL to Pay Time Inc for Subscription Content
America Online will pay a yearly licensing fee to Time Inc to get its exclusive content for AOL subscribers. Time Inc. will divide the fee a…
AOL, Infinity in Content-Swap Promo
AOL and Infinity, the radio station holding company, will team up in a unique cross-marketing campaign to share and broadcast each other’s c…
Time Inc Magazine Start Going Behind AOL Wall
As planned, AOL Time Warner will start restrcting access to some of its highest-profile magazines as part of a previously announced effort t…
AOL Launches Web-Based Voice Mail
AOL has moved into some sort of competition with telecom companies. It unveiled its latest paid service, which lets subscribers listen to v…
AOL to Swap Real Audio Technology
America Online is expected to announce that it will replace RealNetworks with Dolby as the default audio streaming technology for its narrow…
AOL’s New Enhanced Version To Launch Next Week
AOL’s new version, 8.0, will be launched next week, with enhancements. In addition, AOL introduced new pricing for its “bring your own acces…
AOL’s Broadband Plan May Face a Struggle
A story about how AOL is adding features and content to its broadband service. “AOL is positioning its AOL for Broadband–which will have a…
MSN To Stop Trying Catch-Up to AOL
IDC has said Microsoft had abandoned its goal of trying to overtake America Online as the largest online service. “MSN,” the report states,…
Is Yahoo Platinum A Threat to AOL?
A good comparison of how Yahoo Platinum multi-media subscription service might challenge America Online’s own broadband strategy. “Yahoo’s f…
AOL’s Sessions’ Moves Offline to
AOL’s Sessions’ Moves Offline to TV: AOL and MuchMusic USA signed a deal to move the popular broadband online music program “Sessions@AOL” o…
AOL Aims to Cash In
AOL Aims to Cash In on Instant Messenger Success: “AOL has begun trying to sell specialized versions of IM to businesses. For example, it ha…
AOL Time Warner: Spinning off
AOL Time Warner: Spinning off Synergy: A long case study on how AOL TW’s goal for “synergistic” products is only being fulfilled by its book…
AOL Offering Music Catalog for
AOL Offering Music Catalog for Downloads: America Online will introduce a service today that lets users download and listen to a large catal…
AOL to entice users with
AOL to entice users with access to CNN: America Online plans to offer high-speed subscribers free access to CNN’s video news services beginn…
Is AOL’s BYOA Price Too
Is AOL’s BYOA Price Too High?: AOL is about to start pushing its Bring Your Own Access broadband service, but some say the price is too high…
AOL To Debut Ads for
AOL To Debut Ads for Music Service During Grammy: AOL will break two 30-second TV spots promoting its AOL Music on Broadband content Feb. 23…
AOL Tightens Integration of Time
AOL Tightens Integration of Time Warner Content: “Two years after America Online and Time Warner merged, the two sides finally are working t…
AOL-Microsoft? Not Likely, Just Logical:
AOL-Microsoft? Not Likely, Just Logical: A speculative story on whether MSFT can buy America Online from AOL TW. “Scan the landscape of pote…
Analysts: No surprises in store
Analysts: No surprises in store from AOL: Wall Street doesn’t expect fireworks from AOL Time Warner on Wednesday, when the media giant repor…
Yahoo and AOL: Reversal of
Yahoo and AOL: Reversal of Fortunes: The past two years have seen a dramatic reversal of fortunes for Internet bellwethers AOL Time Warner a…
Five Reasons Why AOL’s Glory
Five Reasons Why AOL’s Glory Days Are In the Rearview Mirror: John Ellis examines the reasons why AOL still doesn’t get it.
America Online’s Subscriber Challenge: “Goldman
America Online’s Subscriber Challenge: “Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto said in a recent client note that while he believes AOL Time Warn…
AOL Needs Stonger Central Management
AOL Needs Stonger Central Management to Drive Subscription Strategy: That’s the opinion of Ken Auletta, the media columnist for the New York…
The Pathfinder Redux: Michael Wolff
The Pathfinder Redux: Michael Wolff elaborates on what I had earlier dubbed the “revenge of Pathfinder”.
“This service, which started in th…
AOL Begins Integrating Times’ Content:
AOL Begins Integrating Times’ Content: Ned Desmond, currently president of the company’s Business 2.0 magazine, has been chosen to oversee t…
Why AOL Shouldn’t Restrict Time
Why AOL Shouldn’t Restrict Time Inc.’s Content: A cogent argument from David Kirkpatrick on the mistake AOL is making in restricting Time In…
Casing America Online’s Faltering Flat-Price
Casing America Online’s Faltering Flat-Price Model: A story on why pricing will be the make-or-break issue for AOL. Flat pricing schemes wer…
AOL Needs to Avoid the
AOL Needs to Avoid the Pathfinder’s Mistakes: “But AOL better be careful not to fall prey to the Pathfinder Way: It needs to keep its titles…
Is AOL Time Warner Just
Is AOL Time Warner Just a Three-Headed Monster?: An analysis story focusing on the UK market, on AOL’s new strategy. “Although the company’s…
AOL to Offer Exclusive Time,
AOL to Offer Exclusive Time, CNN Features: America Online Internet service will offer exclusive features from its magazines and CNN news cha…
AOL to Integrate Affiliate’s Magazine
AOL to Integrate Affiliate’s Magazine Content: The dig on Time Inc’s free websites turning subscription in the near future…
Time Inc’s Online Content Might
Time Inc’s Online Content Might Be Walled Off on AOL: Call it the “revenge of Pathfinder”. According to this story in WSJ, America Online an…
Will Pre-Paid Internet Cards Be
Will Pre-Paid Internet Cards Be a Precursor to Pre-Paid Site Access Cards?: The story doesn’t say so, but this will be happening in the near…
AOL Set To Unveil New
AOL Set To Unveil New Content Strategy: In a presentation to investors, AOL Time Warner hopes to present its new strategy for AOL: new conte…
AOL TV?: AOL’s taking its
AOL TV?: AOL’s taking its cues from TV: “AOL’s facelift is being engineered by a new leadership team that came out of television and radio.…
America Online May Move Towards Cable Model
NYT has an interesting story on how AOL will move towards a cable TV model, as it negotiates with the looming AT&T Comcast cable television…
Will Exclusive Entertainment Content be
Will Exclusive Entertainment Content be AOL’s Savior: America Online is going back to its original startegy: Borrowing a page from the broad…
Movielink Hires Top Execs. for
Movielink Hires Top Execs. for On-Demand Service: Movielink, the much delayed video-on-demand service, has hired three top executives. Movie…
AOL Latin America Users Fall:
AOL Latin America Users Fall: Not directly related to content, but access to content. America Online Latin America expects its membership to…
AOL’s New Interactive VP
AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) has named media industry veteran David Lebow as executive VP of programming and strategy for its flagship AOL In…
AOL-Backed Network Live In Trouble?
Network Live, the ambitious online live music venture which is a three way joint venture between AOL, XM and AEG group, is in some amount of…
