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What do you do when you are struggling tech and media company that can’t seem to make enough money in your core business? Why you create a veritable digital garage sale of course, and this is exactly what AOL has done with some of its patents—800 to be exact. The once giant of Silicon Valley [...]
April 24th, 2012 by Anthony West
Poor AOL; the once powerful online media and tech company is now a shadow of its former self and things seem to be getting even worse. The company announced recently that it will be cutting 50 jobs from its AIM division—news which signals perhaps future cuts across the board. AIM as you may be aware [...]
March 15th, 2012 by Anthony West
Are things picking up again for AOL? That must certainly be the sense among analysts who have been greeted with news that the former online media giant made $577 million in the last quarter of 2011. This figure beats Wall Street estimates, but unfortunately didn’t do better than Q4 revenue figures for 2010, which were [...]
February 17th, 2012 by Anthony West
It’s 2012 and it’s an election year filled with lots of juicy gossip and scandal. Little surprise then, that political websites like Politico and the Huffington Post are both having a whale of a time where traffic is concerned. The Huffington Post recently released some traffic data and most analysts were a tad surprise at [...]
February 10th, 2012 by Anthony West
Believe it or not, some people are still paying for their dial-up subscription they got with AOL ages ago. Well, sort of. You see, a recent article about a one Traci Casale revealed that 75% of AOL’s dial-up customers are still paying to receive email via the original subscription plan they received when AOL was [...]
January 9th, 2012 by Anthony West
There was a time when you would be hard-pressed to put the word ‘lose’ and ‘AOL’ in the same sentence, but these days that is so easy—so very easy. Since the heydays of the 90’s AOL has slipped consistently from grace and today the company is trading pretty much on reputation and the remnants of [...]
November 18th, 2011 by Anthony West
A few months ago there was talk about AOL’s CEO, Tim Armstrong getting the boot much like Carol Bartz did at Yahoo. That notion failed to take root with investors, but given the latest earning results from AOL, Armstrong may very well have to seek employment elsewhere. According to recent earnings filings, AOL saw a [...]
November 7th, 2011 by Anthony West
That Facebook is growing at an alarming rate is not in dispute; but what is in dispute—and hot dispute at that—is whether Facebook is growing too fast, perhaps even to the detriment of the rest of us. At a recent conference, Salesforce.com CEO, Mark Benioff, declared rather succinctly that “Facebook is eating the web”, and [...]
October 1st, 2011 by Anthony West
AOL is struggling as a company; Yahoo is struggling as a company, so it simply makes sense for the two to have a talk. The ‘talking’ that is taking place is apparently merger talks. According to Bloomberg, the good folks over at AOL have reportedly reached out to Yahoo in an effort to get the [...]
September 14th, 2011 by Anthony West
AOL released Editions, which is a social news reader app for the Apple iPad. It would compete against other similar apps, such as the Zite and Flipboard. The Editions will get data from Facebook and Twitter and present them in a magazine-style format. Users of Editions can improve the results by reading. The app would [...]
August 6th, 2011 by Debbie Parker
Before the likes of Google and Facebook started to dominate, companies like AOL defined the web. AOL was not only one of the early ISPs, it was a cornerstone of many of the webs defining services, like chat. Today AOL is a shadow of its former self and things just got a little bit worse. [...]
July 29th, 2011 by Anthony West
A federal class action lawsuit was filed against AOL to ask the internet company from invading people’s privacy. The suit claimed that AOL tracks people’s web browsing and sells the data to third-party advertisers. Also accused are ScanScout and Brightcove. The lawsuit was filed in U. S. District Court in Boston by Sandra Person Burns [...]
July 3rd, 2011 by Debbie Parker
Despite having to layoff most of its workforce worldwide, AOL is still pushing through with its expansion of AOL Radio by making it available for Android devices. The company plans to make their service popular by packaging it as a music sharing and social network experience. The application called Play is available free to download [...]
March 20th, 2011 by Chad Buenaflor
The Wall Street Journal reports that AOL and a bunch of private equity firms are stirring up some commotion with talks of buying search engine giant Yahoo. It’s too early to tell whether AOL will buy Yahoo, but it’s sort of strange that’s it not the other way around. Yahoo has a more dominance over [...]
October 15th, 2010 by SiteTrail
Earlier today TechCrunch officially announced that they were being acquired by AOL. Here’s the official press release: AOL TO ACQUIRE TECHCRUNCH NETWORK OF SITES Leading Authority on Tech News Will Expand AOL’s Growing Offering of World-Class, Audience-Relevant Content San Francisco, CA, September 28, 2010 – AOL Inc. [NYSE: AOL] today announced that it has agreed [...]
September 28th, 2010 by SiteTrail
