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AOL to cut 1,200 from Net unit
News AOL Time Warner said on Tuesday that it plans to slash 1,200 positions from its America Online unit, the second round of layoffs in the online unit since its merger with Time Warner. Jonathan Sacks was named president of the AOL Interactive...
[August 22, 2001, 9:36]
New AOL chief faces tough challenges
News Pittman had taken much of the blame internally for AOL Time Warner's plummeting stock price, which was exacerbated by the losses in ad revenue and overall subscriber slowdown in the America Online unit.
[August 7, 2002, 8:17]
New AOL broom sweeps clean
News AOL Time Warner on Thursday announced sweeping organisational changes at its America Online unit, in a bid to make that division more profitable and tighten its focus on broadband services. In a release, Miller set a list of objectives for the...
[September 12, 2002, 15:12]
AOL goes broadband with new software
News The AOL Time Warner online unit will launch an upgraded version of its proprietary service called AOL 8.0 Plus, accompanied by a $35m (about £22m) advertising campaign. Although Miller has the public support of AOL Time Warner chief executive...
[March 31, 2003, 7:59]
Time to drop 'AOL'?
News In an email memo forwarded to CNET News.com, the America Online unit's chief executive, Jonathan Miller, said he approached AOL Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons with the suggestion to drop the AOL from AOL Time Warner.
[August 12, 2003, 11:40]
AOL beats lowered estimates
News But more troubling for the media giant, analysts have begun raising flags over the future financial health of its AOL unit, pegged as the company's cash cow. The cable networks unit showed very good cost discipline, but it looks to me that the AOL...
[October 17, 2001, 15:48]
AOL to take on Japan's mobile Internet
News Under the deal, which has been expected by industry watchers for some time, NTT DoCoMo will take a 42.3 percent stake in AOL's Japanese unit, AOL Japan, and invest around $100m (£68.8m) cash. US Internet giant AOL will reduce its 50 percent stake...
[September 27, 2000, 7:56]
AOL faces hard-sell ad dilemma
News The newly reappointed AOL chief executive desperately needs to shore up the company's flagging ad sales -- but that task could be complicated by growing consumer sensitivity to aggressive online marketing tactics, according to some analysts and...
[April 19, 2002, 14:14]
AOL may eject CD division
News AOL Time Warner has been suffering from sagging revenue in its America Online division, which faces a crumbling online advertising business and softness in its subscriber base. AOL Time Warner is considering selling its CD and DVD manufacturing...
[March 7, 2003, 15:11]
AOL names new chairman
News AOL Time Warner on Thursday said chief executive Richard Parsons will assume a newly created position of chairman and chief executive, following a unanimous vote by the company's board of directors, replacing outgoing chairman Steve Case.
[January 17, 2003, 8:19]
The Day Ahead: Disney says GO brand a no-go, you DIG?
News AOL was so good at the branding game, it acquired Time Warner. With the AOL-Time Warner merger almost official, multi-channel integrated media companies make a lot of sense. Disney changed the name of its Go.com Internet unit and went a long way...
[August 3, 2000, 13:00]
New program mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
AOL downbeat on 2003 ad prospects
News AOL Time Warner said on Tuesday it expects to see advertising and commerce revenue at its America Online unit fall between 40 and 50 percent in 2003. Tuesday's analyst meeting features most of the top brass at AOL including America Online chief...
[December 3, 2002, 12:51]
AOL takes cue from TV
News With the introduction of AOL 8.0 next week, the beleaguered online unit of media giant AOL Time Warner will emulate a strategy that is common in the television industry -- selling advertisers access to audiences based on peak viewing times.
[October 10, 2002, 8:18]
A Year Ago: New program mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2001, 6:01]
AOL ads get bigger, wider, richer
News In the online ad market, where there aren't a lot of dollars and everybody's fighting to the get them, AOL can't afford not to sell advertising technology that all their competitors offer," said Jim Nail, senior analyst at Forrester Research.
[August 22, 2002, 8:13]
Google sinks $1bn into AOL
News This agreement is key to fulfilling our commitment to realise the potential of AOL's very large online audience," Dick Parsons, Time Warner chief executive, said in a statement. The companies said they will collaborate on online video search and...
[December 21, 2005, 7:55]
AOL buys ad firm Tacoda
News Time Warner's AOL internet unit has agreed to acquire Tacoda, a company that offers behavioural targeted ads. This is the latest ad-related purchase for AOL. AOL purchased video ad firm Lightningcast last year and Advertising.com, the largest third...
[July 25, 2007, 8:28]
AOL shares hit by SEC concerns
News After the (Washington Post) articles came out, the SEC informed us they are conducting a fact-finding inquiry," chief executive Richard Parsons said, referring to a report in the newspaper that the AOL division boosted its online advertising...
[July 26, 2002, 10:31]
AOL Time Warner likely to cut 1,000 jobs this week
News AOL Time Warner is likely to lay off around 1,000 employees from its online division this week, according to sources familiar with the plans. If there's overall weakness in online advertising, AOL may find a tougher business climate as well," said...
[August 21, 2001, 9:00]
