AOL Settles Case Over Tactics to Keep Customers
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AOL has agreed to make it easier for its remaining customers to leave as part of a $3 million settlement.
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DULLES, Va. -- The walls surrounding America Online Inc.'s well-manicured gardens are crumbling: AOL is abandoning its strategy of exclusivity and will free much of its music, sports, and other programming to nonsubscribers, in hopes of boosting ad sales.
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Time Warner is nearing settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department on the accounting scandal in AOL.
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The data aggregator said that it has reached a deal to settle a class-action suit filed by shareholders over the massive data breach the company disclosed in early 2005.
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More than six years after America Online's troubled marriage to Time Warner, investors hurt by accounting tricks before and after the merger will begin to receive proceeds of the company's multibillion-dollar settlement in a huge class-action lawsuit.
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(InfoWorld) - Six men have been charged with orchestrating a phishing scheme that targeted AOL users, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday. The men are accused of harvesting thousands of AOL e-mail addresses and then infecting victims' PCs with malicious software that would prevent them from logging on to AOL without entering their credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other personal information. Under the scam, victims would receive fake e-mail greeting cards that would silently infect their computers with the log-on software, according to a grand jury indictment. Victims were also spammed with phoney e-mail messages that claimed to have come from AOL's billing department. "Due to a central server meltdown, your credit card information was lost," one such e-mail read, according to the indictment. "In order to enjoy your AOL experience and keep your account active, you must enter your credit card information within 24 hours." Some of the fake greeting cards claimed to come from Web sites such as Hallmark.com or BlueMountain.com, the indictment states. AOL users appear to have been the primary targets of the fraud, but others may also have been targeted, according to Tom Carson, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's office for the District of Connecticut. "The investigation is ongoing," he said. "I think we can say the bulk of those targeted were AOL users, but we can't say with 100 percent certainty that they were the only victims," he said. The accused are believed to have defrauded thousands of individuals, U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said in a statement. "These are insidious crimes that wreak havoc on the lives of victims, and we will seek strict terms of imprisonment." The alleged scam was conducted over a two-year period, beginning in 2004, the U.S. Attorney said. Proceeds from the crime were used to purchase gaming consoles, laptop computers and gift cards, the indictment states. The men were actually indicted on fraud charges last week by a federal grand jury in New Haven, but the charges were not made public until Wednesday, when three of the men pleaded guilty. The three who have pleaded guilty face between two years and nine and a half years in prison, Carson said. They are Charlie Blount Jr., 22, of Branford, Connecticut, Richard D'Andrea, 22, of West Haven, Connecticut, and Thomas Taylor Jr., 20, also of West Haven. They are scheduled to be sentenced in mid-December. The three men awaiting arraignment are Michael Dolan, 22, of North Miami Beach, Florida, Keith Riedel, 20, of Winter Haven, Florida, and Daniel Mascia, 22, of West Haven. Dolan had previously been sentenced to two years of probation after pleading guilty to accessing a protected computer without authorization.
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The charges of accounting improprieties at AOL date back to 2000. Some analysts had been expecting Time Warner to pay $500 million to $600 million to settle all of its criminal and civil charges with the Justice
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Time Warner is to announce today that it will pay between $500 and $600 million to settle federal investigations into irregularities at America Online, according to reports in the American press.
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AOL, the world's largest internet services provider, is to split into four separate divisions to cut red tape and boost profits.
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The California State Teachers' Retirement  System today announced a $105 million settlement in a securities fraud  case against AOL Time Warner, its accountants, banks and several former  executives.
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LONDON - Time Warner, the world&#39;s largest media company, is to pay out $510m (Â£260.9m) to US authorities following two federal investigations into its internet unit AOL.
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Judge halts guilty plea by ex-AOL employee who sold e-mail addresses, questions new anti-spam law. NEW YORK  - A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online employee
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Media company Time Warner Inc. has  agreed to pay the U.S. government $210 million to settle  charges that its America Online unit fraudulently inflated its  revenue figures, court documents showed on Wednesday.
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The companies settle a lawsuit in which the software giant was accused of poaching smart-phone trade secrets.
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Time Warner Inc. has agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle allegations that its America Online division improperly pumped up revenue and engaged in other unlawful practices before and after the two companies merged.-The Washington Post
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A Glasgow firm signs a deal with AOL to allow users to personalise their digital identity.
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AOL just gave its customers more reasons to stop paying. In a strategy shift likely to accelerate the decline in its core Internet access business, AOL said Wednesday it would give away e-mail accounts and software previously available only to customers who paid as much as $26 a month.