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ComicsAlliance blog the latest Aol property to be shut down

By Nathan Ingraham on April 29, 2013 03:56 pm + 9 comments

Last week, Aol shut down a large portion of its Aol Music division, and now reports are circulating Continue reading…
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Facebook tackles Google, LinkedIn, Yelp, and its own huge database with Graph Search

By Tim Carmody on January 15, 2013 03:13 pm + 161 comments

Introducing what he called "the third pillar" of Facebook ecosystem today, Mark Zuckerberg was Continue reading…
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AOL launches Alto webmail client, its biggest conceptual leap since 'you've got mail'

By Ellis Hamburger on October 18, 2012 04:00 am + 131 comments

AOL today announced Alto, a web-based IMAP email client that lets you manage multiple email accounts Continue reading…
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AOL's Play music app gets a tablet-optimized redesign, but only for Kindle Fire

By Andrew Webster on July 24, 2012 01:25 pm + 4 comments

There may be a number of Android tablets out there, but for its Play music app, AOL decided to focus Continue reading…
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Yahoo confirms Contributor Network password hack, says fix is on the way

By Adi Robertson on July 12, 2012 01:19 pm + 3 comments

Yahoo has confirmed that about 400,000 user accounts and passwords from one of its services were Continue reading…
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AOL chat rooms: a history

By Kimber Streams on July 6, 2012 02:37 pm + 54 comments

AOL's chief architect and longest-employed staffer Joe Schober talked to Time about his history Continue reading…
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AOL closes billion-dollar deal with Microsoft, selling most of its patents

By Adi Robertson on June 15, 2012 04:03 pm + 71 comments

A $1.056 billion agreement that transfers about three-quarters of AOL's patent portfolio to Continue reading…
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Google, Facebook, Twitter join Ads Integrity Alliance, look to combat malicious ads

By Amar Toor on June 14, 2012 02:08 am + 4 comments

Google, Facebook, Twitter, and AOL have all signed on as charter members of the Ads Integrity Continue reading…
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The new Aol On network unites all of Aol's premium video content under one umbrella

By Nathan Ingraham on April 25, 2012 09:57 am + 10 comments

A major part of Aol's business these days is its large content network, headlined by sites like The Continue reading…
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Microsoft and Facebook announce $550m patent deal for patents bought from AOL

By Nilay Patel on April 23, 2012 12:07 pm + 49 comments

Facebook will purchase some 650 social networking-related patents from Microsoft for $550 million, Continue reading…