Previous
News Burst: QXL in AOL Germany pact
News QXL.com (QXL: quote ) shares climbed 17 percent Tuesday after the company announced an agreement with AOL Germany, which could give it access to more than one million AOL users there. The online-auctions group also announced solid earnings in its...
[November 10, 1999, 9:39]
Flat-rate AOL survives in UK, despite German angst
News AOL had been operating a lottery-style system in Germany, where one thousand customers each week won the right to get an "all you can eat" narrowband Internet access product for 19.90 Euros (around £13.60) per month.
[February 26, 2003, 16:14]
AOL gives up UK race
News US-based AOL last week announced impressive subscriber growth for its core brand; meanwhile AOL Europe, a joint venture of America Online and Germany's Bertelsmann, has quietly stopped quoting subscription figures for AOL UK, its wholly-owned...
[June 22, 2000, 15:04]
Industry helps schools get online
News AOL Europe president Andreas Schmidt believes the move will be a big step towards wiring the youth of Germany. AOL's new school initiative is the biggest step ever to catapult Germany into the Internet age," he said.
[February 23, 2000, 11:38]
Europe waits on electronic ads boom
News Europe's online advertising "is in the early stages and the picture is mixed so far, but I can't think of any big advertiser who is not thinking about it," said Wilfred Zorge, managing director of AdOn, based in Hamburg, Germany, an online...
[June 6, 1997, 9:57]
Google searches for Euro success
News Its popularity in these two countries, and profitability in the UK for two straight quarters, is largely due to deals with T-Online, Germany's largest destination site; UK ISP Freeserve; and AOL Europe, which it has a deal with until February 2005.
[August 30, 2002, 11:53]
EU to look at cost of Internet access
News Both Germany and France have incumbent operators and even higher Internet prices than the UK. In a recent interview with ZDNet News, e-Minister Patricia Hewitt says BT "looks with envy at other European operators", and claims that the situation in...
[February 29, 2000, 10:55]
ICQ goes wireless worldwide
News America Online said Tuesday that its ICQ division will provide messaging services for wireless companies in Germany, Israel, Taiwan and Canada, among other countries. More specifically, ICQ will offer its SMS and two-way SMS products for Israel's...
[February 19, 2003, 10:10]
News Burst: AOL to offer free Net access
News AOL, a joint venture between America Online and Germany's Bertelsmann AG, plans to offer the free calls to customers paying a monthly fee of £14.99. AOL confirmed today that it is testing a new pricing package to give subscribers free telephone...
[May 5, 1999, 12:06]
AOL launches version 3.0, passes 100,000 users
News AOL also calculated over 300,000 European subscribers, of which 200,000 are in Germany and 25,000 are in France. Separately, AOL announced content partnerships with The Economist, Thomas Cook, Nickelodeon and the Parents Information Network.
[December 12, 1996, 9:48]
AOL passes 250,000 UK users
News The service, a joint venture by America Online and Germany's Bertelsmann, hit 150,000 members in March and 200,000 in June. AOL has over 700,000 members in Europe and over nine million worldwide. We have achieved that through sticking to our three...
[October 24, 1997, 15:36]
AOL UK unmetered package 'imminent'
News AOL Europe recently launched an unmetered service in Germany. AOL UK is to roll out unmetered access "imminently", the company says. AOL has fought a long battle with BT (quote: BT) and other incumbent telcos to bring unmetered access -- the model...
[June 27, 2000, 12:51]
AOL Time Warner puts pressure on European ISPs
News AOL Europe is the second-largest ISP in both Britain and Germany and is the third most popular provider in France. Should Europe's domestic ISPs be quaking in their boots at the prospect of AOL and Time Warner joining forces to become the world's...
[January 10, 2000, 17:30]
AOL and Google extend European alliance
News Under the deal, announced on Tuesday, AOL subscribers here in the UK, as well as those in France and Germany will receive targeted advertising from Google related to their search request. Google has already been providing Web search results for all...
[October 20, 2004, 9:45]
Five years ago: AOL launches version 3.0, passes 100,000 users
News The company now has over 300,000 European subscribers, of which 200,000 are in Germany and 25,000 are in France. AOL has launched version 3.0 of its online service, and passed 100,000 UK subscribers. Separately, AOL announced content partnerships...
[December 12, 2001, 6:30]
AOL buys ad firm Tacoda
News The company acquired mobile-advertising company Third Screen Media and AdTech AG, a Germany-based online ad-serving company this year. Time Warner's AOL internet unit has agreed to acquire Tacoda, a company that offers behavioural targeted ads.
[July 25, 2007, 8:28]
AOL signs up Google
News The company will continue to provide search results for AOL's properties in the United Kingdom, France and Germany under a multiyear deal the companies signed in January. AOL said its deal with Google would provide pay-for-placement search results...
[May 1, 2002, 15:49]
AOL questions Oftel's local loop pricings
News Prices have so far only been formulated in Germany and Austria so it is too early to say that," says an Oftel spokeswoman. Broadband services in a deregulated UK telecoms environment will be among the most expensive in Europe according to...
[November 9, 2000, 6:17]
MSN UK sounding a retreat? - Analysis
News Looking at what they [Microsoft] did in France and in Germany you could say they're not shy at cutting and running but that said, the environment that gave birth to Freeserve and its imitators may be on the way out.
[January 20, 1999, 10:28]
Bertelsmann CEO to quit AOL board
News AOL and Germany's Bertelsmann may be planning to continue their partnerships after AOL buys media giant Time Warner, but Bertelsmann's CEO is planning to resign from AOL's board of directors. Bertelsmann officials earlier told ZDNet News the...
[January 11, 2000, 15:26]
