ICQ, an instant messaging service that launched in 1996 and was very popular at one time in the US, is officially shutting down operations on June 24, nearly 28 years after it launched.
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Verizon has announced that it's selling its Verizon Media division, which is comprised of Yahoo and AOL. The deal is worth $5 billion for a 90% stake in the company, with Verizon keeping 10%.
Microsoft and Verizon Media have expanded their partnership, under which Yahoo's search ads will be served by Bing Ads. An increase in clicks of 10% to 15% is expected in the U.S. under the alliance.
We knew it was coming, and hopefully, you have found a new, reliable instant messaging service by now. If not, consider this as your official reminder that AIM is permanently saying goodbye tomorrow.
It's been 20 years since AOL pioneered the unique chat service. But now, the company will be shutting it down to "focus on building the next generation of iconic brands and life-changing products."
As many as 1,000 people at Oath, the resulting entity of the AOL and Yahoo merger, will face job losses, representing just under 20% of the combined workforce. The stocks weren't impacted by the news.
When Verizon completes its acquisition of Yahoo later this year, the plan is to merge the organization with AOL to create a new company called Oath. Will the Yahoo brand live on elsewhere?
Verizon is said to be seeking a $1bn discount on the $4.8bn it previously agreed to pay for Yahoo - but Yahoo is sticking to its guns and refusing to budge, saying a deal is a deal.
Verizon Communications has officially announced that it will acquire Yahoo for $4.83 billion. It will integrate the company with AOL, which will help Verizon towards its internet business.
Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed "Spam King" has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $310,000 after he pleaded guilty to fraud, including sending 27 million spam messages on Facebook.
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AOL's chief marketing officer has acknowledged that the company is considering changes to its identity, saying: "Are we going to keep the AOL brand or are we going to bring a new brand to market?"
AOL has fully transitioned to using the Bing search engine for its queries. This means that Microsoft now sits around the 30% mark in terms of desktop search market share in the USA.
AOL Shield offers online protection with its advanced security features. Worry less about threats as you shop, bank and socialize on the internet.
Microsoft is selling off its ad sales business to AOL, in a deal that will reportedly include the transfer of around 1,200 staff, and under the terms, AOL will ditch Google in favour of Bing search.
Verizon has announced that it is buying AOL for $4.4bn - including not just its video and advertising platforms, but also well-known web publications such as The Huffington Post and Engadget.
AOL announced Monday that its email service has been hit with a cyber attack which it claims affectes 2 percent of its accounts. It has urged all of its users to change their passwords.
AOL announced today that Microsoft will begin to show its original video content on its MSN website and on its Bing apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone starting this summer.
David Auerbach, a former Microsoft programmer who worked on the company's MSN Messenger client, has written a new article on his part in getting the program to work with AOL's AIM service in the 1990s
As previously rumored, Radionomy has acquired the popular Winamp media player and the Shoutcast streaming audio service from AOL. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The domain name servers for Winamp have now been switched from its long time owners at AOL to the streaming music service Radionomy, which may indicated that Winamp has been acquired by the company.
Despite a notice that the Winamp website and software would shut down on Friday, December 20th, both are still online as of now as rumors of a possible buyout persist.
Winamp, the long running software media player that is supposed to shut down on Friday, may get a stay of execution as rumors persist that owner AOL may be trying to sell it off.
Eight of the world's largest tech companies have joined forces to call for "government surveillance reform", including an open letter petitioning President Obama and Congress to lead global changes.
A new rumor claims that Microsoft is in talks with AOL that could result in Winamp, which is currently set to shut down in December, being acquired by Microsoft, along with the Shoutcast service.
One of the first Internet mapping services, MapQuest, has launched its official app for Windows Phone 8 devices, including support for Live Tiles and pinning to the Start menu.
Microsoft is launching even more media streaming apps for its Xbox 360 console this week, including the Vimeo and AOL On apps in the US, along with an update to the Verizon FiOS app.
All AOL employees will be getting a nice $1,056 year end bonus, thanks in part due to the recent sale of a number of patents it owned to Microsoft, which in turn sold some of those patents to Facebook
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Aol has launched a new web email service called Alto that's designed to work with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Aol Mail and .Mac, but the press release make no mention of Hotmail or Outlook.com from Microsoft.
In April, AOL announced that Microsoft would be purchasing a number of their patents. Now, in the midst of a very public patent row in the US courts, the AOL/Microsoft deal has been completed.
Aol has launched a major redesign of its web-based Aol Mail service as it seeks to keep its remaining users from leaving for Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail and other services.
AOL has announced that it has officially concluded its previously announced deal to sell over 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion. Microsoft will sell many of those patents to Facebook.
Once upon a time, AOL was a mighty titan in the tech world, but now it's just a place for entrepreneurs and squatters to crash. If that ain't a sad fate, what is?
Nokia has announced it has made some deals with a number of companies for them to produce apps exclusively for the company's Windows Phone-based Lumia smartphones.
Is Microsoft planning to sell off the patents it recently acquired from AOL for around $1 billion? A report claims that it is, adding that Microsoft doesn't actually need most of those patents.
Shares of AOL are going ballistic today, with the stock price surging over 46 percent after it announced a deal to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for just over $1 billion.
Microsoft and AOL linked up in a billion dollar patent sale that will give Microsoft ownership of the patents for Netscape. Microsoft not only killed the browser, but it now owns its soul.
AOL's AIM instant messaging service could be on the chopping block, as the company lays off almost all of the staff working on the long standing software. Could it be the end of an era?
Microsoft, Google and others have agreed to abide by the Obama Administration's new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights which, among other things, will keep companies from tracking people's web surfing.
