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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 dumps Microsoft's Sender ID
News America Online (AOL) has ditched Microsoft's Sender ID technology in favour of Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Explaining its decision, AOL cited a low level of support for the technology in the open source community, as well as possible problems...
[September 17, 2004, 10:05]
AOL wants to lock up its CDs
News AOL Time Warner is beginning efforts to add copy protection to CDs, underscoring the company's desire to limit unsanctioned digital distribution of its musical works. The media giant is searching for a senior project manager to lead a software...
[March 13, 2002, 10:46]
AOL blocks 2bn spam emails in one day
News AOL on Wednesday said it repelled more than two billion unsolicited commercial emails in a single day this week. Earlier this week, AOL formed an alliance with Microsoft and Yahoo! AOL and Microsoft also recently filed suit separately against...
[May 1, 2003, 13:35]
AOL, Time Warner tout broadband future, synergy
News The AOL-Time Warner deal could force competitors such as Yahoo! See: AOL and Time Warner to merge) Time Warner cable has access to 20 million homes and gives AOL the last piece of its broadband strategy.
[January 10, 2000, 14:17]
Roundup: AOL and Time Warner create media monolith
News AOL-Time Warner a threat to AT&T - Tue, 11th Jan AOL deal good news for Euro tech, media stocks - Tue, 11th Jan AOL Time Warner means pressure for European ISPs - Mon, 10th Jan Winners and losers after AOL Time Warner deal - Tue, 11th Jan
[January 10, 2000, 14:36]
AOL Time Warner puts pressure on European ISPs
News 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 first "company for the Internet century"? AOL Europe is the second-largest ISP in both Britain and Germany and is...
[January 10, 2000, 17:30]
AOL opens up spam tools
News The software for blocking unwanted email previously had been accessible only to AOL customers who use the latest versions of the company's online services, AOL 9.0 Optimised and AOL for Broadband. The personalised anti-spam controls are now...
[September 30, 2003, 16:40]
AOL: Fix for critical IM flaw due this week
News AOL acknowledged on Tuesday that its Instant Messenger client is vulnerable to a buffer-overflow attack, and promised that a fix would be available to users within days. We have been working on a resolution in tandem with iDefense for more than a...
[August 10, 2004, 15:20]
AOL must move to share IM with rivals
News AOL Time Warner on Monday must give federal regulators a progress report detailing efforts to open its instant messaging networks to rivals, the first such filing required as a condition of the company's January merger.
[July 23, 2001, 15:59]
Analysis: AOL/TW match made in heaven?
News AOL UK appears to be much like its parent in the US but it isn't. AOL UK is part of AOL Europe which is half owned by German media giant Bertelsmann and half by AOL in the US. Both companies have huge subscriber bases: AOL has around 20 million...
[January 10, 2000, 17:55]
AOL says UK prices will stay the same
News That said, Bulkeley said that AOL also won't be cutting prices either, although some rivals have taken that tack. Bulkeley said AOL passed 350,000 users in the UK two weeks ago, adding 50,000 users in just eight weeks - its fastest ever rate of 50...
[February 13, 1998, 15:00]
A Year Ago: AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun
News AOL people are painting this as a seamless, end-to-end e-commerce deal. But AOL bought Netscape for its portal. Perhaps that's because the future for Netscape's channel partners will be anything but status quo, according to the few details that...
[January 11, 2000, 6:01]
AOL-Time Warner merger validates Internet euphoria
News When I started covering AOL 10 years ago, I would have never dreamed this was possible," said Abishek Gami, an analyst at William Blair in the US. People, HBO (Home Box Office), Sports Illustrated, Cartoon Network, Warner Music Group, Fortune...
[January 11, 2000, 8:39]
AOL-Time Warner a threat to AT&T
News In a deal that took most by surprise Monday, AOL is acquiring Time Warner and getting a much-needed asset: a pipeline to cable subscribers. On the flip side, AOL's primary mission is to sell Internet service.
[January 11, 2000, 9:45]
AOL deal good news for Euro tech, media stocks
News London-listed Internet and media shares surged Monday as the market came to terms with the news of AOL's all-share buyout of media giant Time Warner -- the biggest deal ever, and a resounding validation for the real value of Internet-related stocks.
[January 11, 2000, 11:26]
AOL signs up Google
News AOL said its deal with Google would provide pay-for-placement search results for its AOL, CompuServe, AOL.com and Netscape Communications properties starting this summer. win more than offsets the AOL loss," wrote Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto...
[May 1, 2002, 15:49]
AOL merger may cost CompuServe jobs
News CompuServe shareholders approved the sale of the company to WorldCom on Friday, paving the way to the sale of the online division to AOL.
[February 2, 1998, 11:28]
AOL eyes high-speed transmission
News AOL will work with GTE Internetworking to set up the xDSL trials, according to AOL spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg. The service will cost $49.95 (£28) per month, which includes the AOL subscriber fee. Goldberg said AOL did not have definite plans...
[April 3, 1998, 7:00]
AOL moves to pacify user fears over hoax e-mail
News Purporting to be "From a former AOL employee", the e-mail claimed AOL 4.0 would let AOL inspect users' hard drives for personal information. Bulkeley's mail to the AOL community said: "the contents of the email are completely false.
[October 27, 1997, 10:47]
