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AOL's Hit List: 50+ Projects Gone Or Going (TWX)

2008-10-06 06:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...AOL told users of its Hometown and Journals services that they would shut down within a month . The soon-to-be gone offerings are two of many services, features and projects the company has axed or is planning to axe this year. News of the cuts has been dribbling out throughout the summer and fall, but we can speed things up: We've got an...
 
Tags: aol, projects, transition, transition aol pictures, aol shutdowns, aol message boards, aol hometown, hometown, aol video drm
 
 
 
 
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Yahoo About To Overpay For AOL (TWX)?

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2008-10-06 14:35:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...AOL could announce their merger deal this week, TechCrunch says . The terms Yahoo swallows AOL's content and ad network businesses (but not the access business Time Warner throws in "a couple billion" of cash Time Warner ends up with one-third of the combined company Fine. Assuming that's correct, how much is Yahoo paying for what's left of...
 
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AOL Worth Something? You Can't Be Serious

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2008-06-16 16:54:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...AOL infomercial" posted by an SAI reader this morning , another SAI reader, Steve Baldwin, shreds AOL's latest 10Q (TWX) and asks a lot of smart questions. Steve's comments and analysis are in red below. SAI's annotations/responses in blue STEVE BALDWIN My God, it's an AOL infomercial, right here on Silicon Alley Insider. Still, I'm glad...
 
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AOL Launches Free Versions of AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo on Apple App Store

2008-07-10 00:00:00 by Lee Givens in Mac@AOL Blog
 
...AOL today announced three new iPhone OS applications: AIM, the leading instant messaging service; AOL Radio, the most popular online radio service and recent recipient of an Apple Design Award; and Truveo, the leading video search engine are available as free downloads from the Apple App Store beginning today With AIM, AOL Radio and Truveo...
 
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AOL Desktop for Mac Launched

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2008-05-06 00:00:00 by Lee Givens in Mac@AOL Blog
...AOL Desktop for Mac , Announcements It's Official: AOL Launches New Desktop Software for the Mac New Software for Mac is Latest in Series of Enhanced Mac-Compatible Applications and Products Released by AOL The AOL for Mac team is pleased to announce today that we are officially launching the new AOL Desktop for Mac software (...
 
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Microsoft (MSFT) - AOL (TWX) Deal Within a Few Months

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2008-06-16 14:58:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...AOL (TWX) is in play. Not officially, perhaps, but certainly unofficially. The two most likely AOL buyers, moreover, are...Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO). Yahoo is a better fit, but we expect a Microsoft-AOL deal to be announced within a couple of months Background: AOL needs to be combined with one of the Big Three (Google, Yahoo, or...
 
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AOL to sell Xdrive, close photo and mobile sites

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2008-07-25 14:05:00 by Stephen Shankland in Webware.com
AOL is scrapping some online destinations but will push others harder in an attempt to improve its finances, according to internal memos Among those products to be shuttered are Bluestring , a site to share videos, music, and photos; Xdrive , a general-purpose online storage service; and AOL Pictures , where people could store and share photos,...
 
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AOL buys social network Bebo for $850 million

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2008-03-13 12:07:00 by Caroline McCarthy in Webware.com
...AOL-Bebo conference call In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social-networking site Bebo . The price tag: $850 million in cash Rumors had floated over the past few months that Bebo, which has over 40 million members, was up for sale . Reports suggested a $1 billion price tag, but there were few hints as to potential buyers. Though Bebo...
 
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Time Warner (TWX): AOL Not Terrible, Actually

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2008-08-06 06:13:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
AOL's ad revenue (TWX) grew 2% year over year --bad, but not cataclysmic, especially in comparison to the weak growth at Yahoo. That said, operating income continued its plunge, as as result of an important (and negative) revenue dynamic everyone should be aware of AOL's third-party ad revenue (ad networks) grew. Display ads on AOL properties,...
 
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