REPORT: AOL Attempting to Buy Yahoo
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL and several venture capital firms are in talks to buy Yahoo. (more…)
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch!
AOL TO ACQUIRE TECHCRUNCH NETWORK OF SITES
Leading Authority on Tech News Will Expand AOL’s Growing Offering of World-Class, Audience-Relevant Content (more…)
AOL Close to Buying TechCrunch
AOL, the New York-based online media company, is on the verge of acquiring TechCrunch, the online blogging network started by former attorney, Michael Arrington. (more…)
Gmail Nudges Past AOL Email In The U.S. To Take No. 3 Spot.
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Good thing Gmail is out of beta. It is now the third largest Web mail service in the U.S. In July, Gmail nudged past AOL Email with 37 million unique visitors compared to 36.4 million for AOL, according to comScore estimates. (Gmail is the orange line in the chart below). That puts Gmail within sight of the No. 2 player, Windows Live Hotmail, which has 47 million unique visitors. After that there is a wide gulf separating Yahoo Mail and its 106 million monthly unique visitors. (more…)
Syndicaster Adds AOL, Brightcove, And YouTube Distribution For Local TV News Clips
Continuing its quest to bridge the world’s of broadcast television and the Web, Syndicaster is adding several online distribution options for local TV stations, including the ability to publish video clips to YouTube, AOL (via Brightcove), Yahoo and other sites. Syndicaster is an online editing and video-clip management service that allows TV stations to any broadcast news clip and repurpose it for the Web by publishing it to their own Websites or through its sister service ClipSyndicate (both Syndicaster and ClipSyndicate are divisions of Critical Media). (more…)
AOL launches personal finance site
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Time Warner Inc’s AOL will launch a personal finance site on Tuesday, adding to a roster of new properties that do not bear its name.