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Time Warner Readies Itself To Sell Underachieving AOL Piecemeal

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 08.06.2008 | Business

Read More: Aol, Time Warner, Selling AOL, AOL Sale, AOL Buyer, Jefff Bewkes, Time Warner Profits, Business News

NEW YORK — Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings fell 26 percent on declining subscriber fees at its AOL online unit and lower ad revenue a...

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Mobile Advertising Growth Stunted by Mobile Carriers

Nina Spezzaferro | Posted 08.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Aol, Platform-A, Mobile Phones, Advertising, Business News

Successfully targeted and privacy-centric mobile advertising, while inevitable, could very well be another 18 to 24 months away.

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Yahoo, Icahn Settle: Carl Gets 3 Seats, Agrees To Shut Up

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Yahoo, Aol, Carl Icahn, Yahoo Proxy Fight, Bobby Kotick, Jon Allen, Jerry Yang, Yahoo Shareholders, Business News

Here's the official end of the Yahoo-Icahn proxy war: Yahoo will give the corporate raider 3 seats on its board (one for himself, plus two more), and ...

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Yahoo, At Long Last, Will Pay Shareholders To Love It

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Aol, Jerry Yang, Yahoo!, Business News

Useful thought by Team Yahoo: Why trust the WSJ, the NYT CNBC or anybody else when you can just go directly to shareholders? Hence this memo released ...

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Yahoo, Microsoft Mull Buying AOL: Report

Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Sale, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner, Aol, AOL Merger, Jerry Yang, Business News

Following our report that a Time Warner team is talking to Microsoft about an AOL deal, a source tells Reuters that TWX is talking to Jerry Yang and c...

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Yahoo And AOL, Microsoft And Time Warner Subjects Of Latest Merger/Buyout Gossip

Reuters | Eric Auchard and Kenneth Li | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Yahoo Merger, AOL for Sale, Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo, AOL Buyout, Yahoo Tanking, Yahoo Buyout, Aol, AOL Sale, Jerry Yang, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have been holding separate talks with other potential media partners after their negot...

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AOL For Sale?

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Sale, Time Warner, Aol, Ed Adler, Twx, Jeff Bewkes, Business News

At a meeting with about a dozen senior members of AOL's staff yesterday, Jeff Bewkes left at least one member of management with the impression that t...

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Spurned Microsoft Only Had Eyes For Yahoo

Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Steve Ballmer Yahoo, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Yahoo, Aol, Yahoo Microsoft, Microsoft Facebook, Microsoft, Time Warner AOL, Yahoo, Business News

Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...

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AOL Whistle-Blower Becomes SEC Target

New York Times | Tim Arango | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Sec, Time Warner, Aol, Joseph A. Ripp, Securities and Exchange Comission, Joe Ripp, Business News

On May 14, 2001, Joseph A. Ripp, the newly appointed chief financial officer of America Online, faxed a letter to the Las Vegas offices of the account...

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Ex-AOL Time Warner Executives Charged With Fraud

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Aol, Time Warner, Aol Time Warner, Ex-Aol Execs, Aol Fraud, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Monday said eight former Time Warner Inc. executives fraudulently inflated the company's online advertising r...

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Yahoo, Google Close To Outsourcing Deal: Now What?

Reuters | Franklin Paul | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft, Yahoo, Aol, Anti-Trust, Google-Yahoo, Google, Business News

"It's a success! Now what?" Yahoo may be ready to turn over its Web search advertising to Google following a successful test using Google's service t...

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Yahoo-ers Hate AOL Deal But Too Afraid To Tell Jerry

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Microsoft, Yahoo, Yahoo AOL Merger, Aol, Yahoo Microsoft, Yahoo AOL, Msft, Kara Swisher, Tiem Warner, Jerry Yang, Business News

Kara Swisher called up a half-dozen of her senior Yahoo (YHOO) sources and asked them what they thought of Yahoo's new merge-with-AOL-to-escape-Micros...

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Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React

PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corp, Yahoo Google Adsense, Microsoft, Ben Schacter, News Corp Yahoo Bid, Google Yahoo, Yahoo AOL Bid, AOL Yahoo News Corp, News Corp Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo, Yahoo, Yahoo Microsoft, Jeff Lindsay, Aol, Microsoft Bid, AOL Yahoo Deal, Google, Business News

With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...

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The Other Google/AOL/Yahoo Coalition

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Web Piracy, Yahoo, Aol, Jim Halpert, Richard Brodsky, Google, Business News

Another Web coalition featuring Google, AOL, Yahoo -- and many other Internet players -- has gathered to fight proposed New York state legislation tha...

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Internet, Media Stars Line Up for Yahoo

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Yahoo, Microsoft, Microsoft Yahoo, Yahoo Microsoft, Microsoft Bid, Aol, Google, News Corp, News Corp Yahoo, News Corp Yahoo Bid, Google Yahoo, Yahoo Google Adsense, Yahoo AOL Bid, AOL Yahoo Deal, AOL Yahoo News Corp, Business News

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...

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Microsoft Said To Be In Talks With News Corp Over Joint Yahoo Bid

Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corp Yahoo, Microsoft Yahoo, News Corp Yahoo Bid, News Corp Microsoft Joint Yahoo Bid, News Corp Microsoft, News Corp Microsoft Yahoo, Time Warner, Yahoo, Aol, AOL Yahoo Time Warner Deal, AOL Time Warner Yahoo, AOL Yahoo Deal, Business News

The New York Times is reporting that News Corporation and Microsoft are in talks to make a joint bid for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is ...

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AOL's IM Threatened By New Facebook Chat

New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL IM, Facebook Chat, Aol, Facebook, Facebook IM, Social Networking, Business News

Don't expect AOL to be LOL over Facebook's new push into instant messaging. Time Warner's struggling online unit could be the big loser if the surgin...

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How Did Obama Hijack HillaryClinton.Com?

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lies, Aol, barackobama.com, hillaryclinton.com, Hillary Clinton, Tricks, Dick Tuck, Pranks, Barack Obama, Google, Website, Politics News

I typed in Hillaryclinton.com on AOL Search -- powered by Google -- and up pops Obama's web site ( See below) inviting me to; "Help elect Barack Ob...

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AOL Managment Hates Bebo Buy

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.20.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Bebo, Aol, Myspace, Facebook, AOL Advertising, Bebo, Business News

Many senior AOL (TWX) managers did not want to buy social-networking site Bebo, sources tell us. Among the concerns, they did not (and do not) believe...

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My Interview with Dick Parsons

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 03.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Change, Dick Parsons, Time Warner, first30days, Aol, Ariane De Bonvoisin, Media News

Does change make the man? Or does the man make the change? That was one of the things I contemplated when interviewing former Time Warner CEO Dick Pa...

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AOL-Bebo: An Analysis

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Networks, AOL Bebo, Aol, AOL Buys Bebo, Bebo, Business News

Key points on AOL-Bebo (TWX): *Price probably fine. Social networks very hard to monetize, but given per-member price deflation since Murdoch bought ...

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AOL to Pay $850M for Social Network Bebo

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business

Read More: News Corp, Time Warner, Aol, Myspace, AOL Buys Bebo, Social Media Networks, Bebo, Business News

NEW YORK — AOL stepped up its bid to boost traffic and advertising opportunities worldwide as the struggling Internet company agreed Thursday to...

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Time Warner CEO Open To AOL Merger Deal

New York Times | SAUL HANSELL, LOUISE STORY | Posted 03.12.2008 | Business

Read More: AOL Sale, Time Warner, Jeffrey Bewkes, Aol, Time Warner AOL, Jeff Bewkes, Business News

AOL, the company that introduced millions of people to the Internet, has tried to reinvent itself many times. The latest effort, like those before it,...

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Reading The Pictures: Retarded Surge

Michael Shaw | Posted 02.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Pet Market, Down Syndrome, White House, Ryan Crocker, Aol, Condoleezza Rice, Detonate, Times Online, Baghdad, Bombing, Al Qaeda, Media News

I had my suspicions about the suicide bombers, but it didn't stop a wide swath of media from jumping on the story, producing headlines and visuals like the one above.

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The AOL Exodus Effect

Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb, Kendra Marr | Posted 02.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Bethesda, Aol, Reston, Sprint Nextel, Bay Area, Silicon Valley, Business News

Barry Schuler moved to Washington from Silicon Valley to join AOL during its golden days, one of the many top technology professionals the Internet gi...

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