Tag Archives : AOL

Representatives from AOL and American online newspaper The Huffington Post first met in November last year at a conference in the United States. Since then, they were little more than two months of talks for the sale was announced in The HuffPost. The deal closed for $ 315 million is the largest acquisition by AOL since 2009, when it was separated [...]

The Huffington Post, one of the most prominent news, analysis, and lifestyle website boasting of 25 million unique monthly visitors has been bought by AOL for $315 million. Yahoo had also been in talks with Huffington Post for a possible acquisition in June but apparently that deal did not go through and AOL’s offer stuck. With this deal, Arianna [...]

Rupert Murdoch is not one of those who give up easily. He is convinced that digital media is the future and despite some setbacks he is forging ahead creating new digital products and platforms on the way. The latest was the launch of The Daily, an iPad newspaper project in collaboration with Apple. It was a low key launch party at the Guggenheim museum [...]

Have you ever felt the need of cleaning up your digital life and sweep up all your old accounts? Well if you have, here’s an all new uber cool service DeleteMe which helps you reclaim control of your online personality by erasing off your older or defunct accounts which you no longer wish to maintain. The procedure is as simple. All you have to do [...]

It is undeniable that the contemporary field of communication leads to mark incorporating the digital world as an arena of central processes communication. Interpersonal relationships, community experiences/collective media/platforms, collaboration, evaluation, reputation, among other terms, part of the daily communication with those involved in occupational [...]

Having an active AOL e-mail account is probably a rarity nowadays. But the company is leaving no stones unturned to overhaul its mailing system. They even say that you will not have to use the @ AOL. Com domain. This endeavour is called “Project Phoenix”. I must say that they have named this effort quite well as it would actually have to bring AOL [...]

In what is being described as one of the pivotal moments in the world of technology and business for the year 2010, the newly resurrected AOL or America Online has now officially become the owner of the tech blog giant, TechCrunch. AOL CEO, Tim Armstrong made an official announcement of the acquisition at the Disrupt event, which has been organized [...]

In what can only be seen as one of the most remarkable event in the technology world for the year 2010, one of the biggest technology blogs on the Internet, TechCrunch, is about to be acquired by the newly rejuvenated AOL. TechCrunch, that was founded by the former lawyer, Michael Arrington, is seen in the tech world as one of the most respectable and [...]

In one of the biggest acquisitions for the year 2010, the Internet search behemoth, Google Inc. has reportedly bought the prominent flight search engine, ITA Software for $700 million, thereby marking its first big entry into the travel business. As per Google, in effort to provide the users with better and comprehensive flight information, the company [...]

It seems that one of the oldest IT companies in the U.S, AOL which had recently spun off from Time Warner as an independent vertical had not through the acquisition of social network Bebo for $850 million. Now, AOL it seems rather than shutting down Bebo, has made up its mind to sell off the liability that Bebo has become to Criterion Capital Partners, [...]