Posts Tagged ‘AOL’

AOL Dividend Shares To Be Distributed In December 2009

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 18:38 By Rajeev Saxena

Time Warner Inc. has announced the date for the dividend spin off of its internet entity AOL Inc. The dividend spin off of AOL that is scheduled for December 9th, 2009 will formally separate the entities both legally and structurally. The date for the separation was decided unanimously by the board of directors of Time [...]

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Google now targeted in industry-wide phishing scam

Thursday, October 8, 2009 14:19 By GSerrano

Experts believe that there is an ‘industry-wide phishing scheme.’ Based on the ‘more than 30,000 account details’ that have been posted online, it looks like phishing may yet be the current Internet scourge, and we are well-advised to change our online passwords every three months as well as not use the same log-in details for [...]

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AOL will either Acquire or Partner with Startups to Retrieve its Fortunes

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 17:54 By Robert

It’s bad news on AOL’s side as they have been gradually losing market share. To add to this rude fate, AOL has also fallen to the No.4 spot, which is a notch below Google’s Gmail service. According to the recent statistics revealed by ComScore show that AOL’s monthly visitors went down from 45.1 million in [...]

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Bing is growing

Sunday, August 23, 2009 5:42 By NARUTO

Bing maintained its slow, but constant growth in the market of online searches in the United States and it reached the slice of 8,9% of participation in July, according to data of the comScore consultancy. Google and Yahoo, first and second places, respectively, they observed small falls in the period.
Google was responsible for 64,7% of [...]

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Online Ad Expenditure Hits Bottom For Q2-2009

Friday, August 7, 2009 13:14 By Rajeev Saxena

Even with new services, new websites and other interesting elements surfacing on the internet, there seems to be a continuous decline in the online advertisement expenditure. In the most recent report released by IDC, the current online advertising spending for the second quarter of 2009, has declined by 5% to 13.9 billion, whereas the same [...]

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Google Sells Its Stake In AOL

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:39 By Rajeev Saxena

Google Inc. that had acquired a 5% stake in Time Warner’s AOL, has sold it all back to the media giant, but at quite a depreciated rate of just $283 million as against the $700 million that Google spent while acquiring the stakes in AOL. Time Warner is planning to do a public spin off [...]

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A new cool instant messaging application

Monday, June 22, 2009 23:45 By NARUTO

It is very common to have multiple Internet accounts in various instant messaging services. And to talk to all the virtual friends it is necessary to install various types of chat programs. The worst: manage multiple windows simultaneously. But now it’s possible unify multiple networks into a single program. Simply install on your computer Instant-t. [...]

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Zuckerberg has started wearing a tie. "2009 is a serious year" , he says.

Is Facebook Taking Over Our Work and Personal Lives?

Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:38 By Preeti

 
 
CEO of Facebook, 24 year old Mark Zuckerberg founded this site about five years ago, originally meant to merely serve as an online platform for cool college kids to check each other out. But recently President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft’s new operating system borrows from [...]

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AOL Launches Hyper-Local Search Engine

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 19:24 By Jaiyant Cavale

The market lately has been concentrating on reaching the right target audience at the right time and search engines shouldn’t be any different either. With the gargantuan search engines like Google and Yahoo taking up all the search hits, specific searches like events or business listings usually get lost in the ocean of search results. [...]

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