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AOL to profit from Live 8 lesson

News AOL and the XM Satellite Radio networks are teaming up with a major concert promoter for a new live music content venture. The joint venture, which also will include event promoter AEG, will be focused on developing content from live concerts and...

13 July 2005, 9:22

AOL and Microsoft prepare VoIP services

News AOL and Microsoft are both gearing up to launch Internet phone services, the companies announced on Tuesday. AOL plans to launch its TotalTalk Net phone service on 4 October. The service will let consumers make and retrieve calls, as well as send...

21 September 2005, 8:56

AOL to offer free AIM phone service

News AOL is planning to launch by the end of the month AIM Phoneline, a free service that will let AOL Instant Messenger users receive incoming calls from any phone, an AOL spokeswoman said on Thursday. AOL, a division of Time Warner, also plans to roll...

5 May 2006, 10:18

News.blog: AOL snatches up Bebo

News In an unexpected move, AOL has acquired social-networking site Bebo. Though Bebo had already partnered with AOL's AIM messaging client to facilitate friend-invite interoperability between the two services, even the most creative blogger speculation...

Tags: ad, networking, platform, international

14 March 2008, 9:37

AOL creates kit for 'ping and play'

News The AOL kit's release follows the integration of its instant-messaging software into The Matrix Online, a multiple-player game from Warner Brothers. Using the kit's tools, developers can add instant messaging into any new or existing game, AOL said.

17 May 2005, 9:28

AOL snaps up blog publisher Weblogs

News AOL plans to acquire blog publisher Weblogs, in an effort to bolster its presence in the ever-growing blogging community. AOL said on Thursday that it will integrate the blogs throughout its network, such as within its television, travel and...

7 October 2005, 9:01

AOL offers free blog services to the general public

News America Online has expanded access to its blog pages, offering anyone who signs up for AOL's free instant-messenger service the opportunity to create, read and post to the online journals, the company announced on Friday.

9 May 2005, 9:01

AOL signs up partners for video search engine

News Keeping up in the heated race to build the best video search engine, AOL has signed ten new content partners, including parent-company property CNN. AOL's audio and video search engine Singingfish has inked partnerships to include searchable video...

9 June 2005, 8:51

Carphone Warehouse snaps up AOL UK

News Carphone Warehouse has bought AOL UK for £370m, following a protracted and secretive bidding war. Parent group Time Warner hired Citibank in the first half of this year to review the options for AOL UK.

12 October 2006, 7:02

Google to bid for AOL?

News Google could try to bid for AOL in order to pre-empt a Microsoft takeover and protect the $380m in revenue Google gets from its biggest partner, according to an analyst. We believe it is entirely possible that Google could consider making a bid for...

20 September 2005, 10:14

AOL launches video search service

News America Online quietly launched a new video-on-demand search service Thursday, opening the doors for millions of Internet users to view music videos, news segments and other content from its parent company Time Warner, whose mountain of media...

1 July 2005, 9:49

Google buys a slice of AOL

News The companies said they will collaborate on online video search and showcase AOL's premium video service within Google Video, as well as allow Google Talk and AIM instant messaging users to communicate with each other.

21 December 2005, 9:13

Spying worm spreads via MSN Messenger and AIM

News Microsoft's MSN Messenger and AOL's Instant Messenger services are being targeted by malicious messages containing links that could infect a computer with a Trojan horse or dangerous worm. Microsoft and AOL could not be immediately reached for...

22 July 2005, 9:01

News.blog: iPhone to get chat app?

News Apple touted an adaption of AOL's instant-messaging client for the iPhone. The US Patent and Trademark Office published the application, titled "Portable Electronic Device for Instant Messaging", on 6 March -- the very same day Apple was providing...

Tags: apple, messages, chat, messaging

23 April 2008, 9:34

DVR forcing TV advertising to get creative

News This September, AOL and Mark Burnett Productions will launch Gold Rush, an interactive game that asks players to monitor CBS television programmes and commercials for clues to find $2m (£1.1m) in gold.

24 May 2006, 12:06