News Burst: AOL To Buy Mirabilis For $287M
News Under the deal, which was rumored for weeks, AOL will pay Mirabilis $120 million in performance incentives beginning in 2001. The payments will be spread over three years.
[June 9, 1998, 7:15]
Unpatched Security Hole Detected In ICQ
News All versions prior to AOL Mirabilis 2001B are vulnerable to the exploit, according to a report published on Thursday by the US-based Internet security centre CERT. Users who have the most recent build of the Mirabilis client are safe because...
[January 25, 2002, 16:43]
Microsoft Goes Head To Head With AOL
News AOL dominates the instant messaging space, with both its AOL program and ICQ, the service offered by Mirabilis, which AOL acquired last year. Microsoft's MSN Messenger will let users send notes and messages to users of AOL's Instant Messenger...
[July 22, 1999, 16:24]
AOL Blasts MS Instant Message Service
News AOL dominates the instant messaging market, with both its AOL program and ICQ, the service offered by Mirabilis, which AOL acquired last year. "It raises significant and serious privacy and security issues," said Ann Brackbill, senior vice...
[July 23, 1999, 8:10]
What Did Einstein Ever Do For Us?
News Quantum physics destroys our everyday notions," said Richard Wolfson, a professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, in a lecture marking the 100th anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis. It's rare that a person gets a chance to overturn humanity...
[June 3, 2005, 12:00]
AOL Blocks MSN... Again
News But in a larger sense, industry observers say, what's at stake is the continued development of a new kind of technology, pioneered by AOL and its subsidiary Mirabilis, that recently became more popular than the U.S.
[July 30, 1999, 9:31]
ICQ Reaches Out To Developers
News The ICQ tool helped establish instant messaging as a major new communications technology in the late 1990s, but its influence has waned since America Online acquired its maker Mirabilis for $287m (£157m) in 1998.
[April 19, 2004, 16:45]
US Report: AOL Slips Despite Strong Q4
News The fourth quarter results do not include a series of charges AOL expects to absorb for the settlement of a shareholder suit, as well as write-offs for in-process research and development in connection with its acquisitions of Mirabilis Ltd.and...
[August 6, 1998, 7:39]
ICQ Flaws Open PCs To Attack
News Israeli company Mirabilis, which created the software, was bought by America Online in June 1998 and its name was changed to ICQ Inc. Two serious flaws in America Online's ICQ software could allow an online attacker to take control of a person's PC...
[May 6, 2003, 7:21]
Patent Could Give AOL An Edge In Messaging
News AOL acquired ICQ's parent company, Mirabilis, in 1998 for $287m (about £184m) in cash. America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
[December 18, 2002, 9:18]
AOL Sees Red Over ICQ Spying Programs
News America Online bought the Israeli company that makes the software, Mirabilis, in 1998. A group of Ukrainian software developers say they've developed several programs that can turn America OnlineÂ’s ICQ instant messaging software into a spy tool...
[February 1, 2001, 14:59]
