AOL Buys Online Marketing Network
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AOL said it has purchased buy.at, an online affiliate marketing network, as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet advertising operations.
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AOL is rumored to be close to a deal with Third Screen Media, a mobile advertising startup, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company had previously been in talks with Microsoft over a possible deal.
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Online retailer Buy.com is inviting itself into the expanding social networking scene, acquiring a Web site that rewards members with checks or gift certificates if they persuade others to buy their favorite products.
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By Anonymous  Fruitful times for AOL. which bought a controlling interest in ad- serving company ADTECH. This will extend AOL's global reach to 25 countries. Londoners can now share views about content in thelondonpaper, which has launched an SMS drive.
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AOL on Tuesday unveiled a revamped  music product with a Web-based store and subscription service  offering audio and video streaming, programmed radio and  downloads that can be transferred to compatible digital media  players.
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A Glasgow firm signs a deal with AOL to allow users to personalise their digital identity.
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Time Warner Inc. said Thursday it agreed to sell AOL France's Internet access business to Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications network operator, for about $365 million in cash.
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AOL Canada Inc. will announce plans today to enter the burgeoning market for providing telephone service over the Internet. The on-line service company has beaten its US parent Time Warner Inc
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America Online will begin offering to  sell members a security device and service that has been used  to safeguard business computer networks, the world's largest  Internet service provider said on Tuesday.
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America Online will begin offering to sell members a security device and service that has been used to safeguard business computer networks, the world's largest Internet service provider said on Monday.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL continued its strategy ofÂ separating its Internet access and content businessesÂ in Europe, with the sale of its France Internet access business to Neuf Cegetel. The deal, announced Thursday, is worth â¬288 million ($366 million) and includes an ongoing partnership between AOL and Neuf Cegetel, a broadband operator. It's the second such deal in a week. On Sunday,Â Telecom Italia boughtÂ AOL's German Internet access business for â¬675 million. The AOL France acquisition includes 500,000 broadband customers as well as AOL France's customer service operation. In addition, starting next year, AOL will manage online advertising sales and supply editorial content for all of Neuf Cegetel's portals. The companies will share advertising revenue from the sites. AOL will continue to support its own portal,Â available here. By the end of this year, Neuf Cegetel hopes to begin offering additional services to the acquired AOL subscribers, such as DSL (digital subscriber line) TV, mobile telephony and a converged GSM-Wi-Fi offering. Neuf Cegetel will also encourage AOL's dial-up customers to migrate to broadband. AOL France said in August that it was in negotiations with Neuf Cegetel. The confirmation came around the same time that AOL announced that it would begin offering its content services for free to any visitor to its portals around the world. Previously, the content and services were available only to AOL subscribers. Earlier in the year, Telecom Italia made an offer for AOL's businesses in Germany and France. The German business acquired by the operator earlier this week had 1.1 million broadband customers as of June, and 1.3 million dial-up subscribers. AOL is still looking for a buyer for its remaining European Internet access business, in the U.K. TheÂ change in strategy, whereby AOL will focus on primarily earning revenue from online advertising, came as the company struggled to retain Internet access customers. AOL will retain its Internet access business in the U.S. but pay less attention to subscriber growth there.
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Discovery Communications has purchased Web site HowStuffWorks for $250 million, adding a key element to the Silver Spring cable television network's growing digital presence, the company announced yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - AOL plans to strengthen its online advertising business by acquiring Tacoda, a company that specializes in delivering ads based on users' online activities. AOL entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tacoda, whose "behavioral targeting" technology will complement AOL's online advertising services, the companies announced Tuesday. AOL and Tacoda didn't disclose details of the transaction, which will close after customary approvals are obtained. AOL, which is owned by Time Warner, is in a so far successful, years-longÂ transition from a subscription-fee based business to an advertising-based business. Like Google, Yahoo, and other major Internet players, AOL is busy boosting its capabilities to provide a variety of online advertising services, including search, video, syndicated, mobile, and graphical ads. In order to capitalize on theÂ fast-growing online ad market, AOL, Yahoo, Google and others have resorted to purchasing online ad services companies. For example,Â Google is in the process of buying DoubleClickÂ for $3.1 billion, whileÂ Yahoo recently closed its acquisition of Right Media. In May, Microsoft announced its intention toÂ buy digital marketing services provider aQuantiveÂ for $6 billion. Meanwhile,Â AOL acquired Third Screen MediaÂ and AdTechÂ this year, and Lightningcast last year. The U.S. online advertising market grew 35 percent in 2006 over 2005, the fourth straight year of expansion for this market, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Marketers spent almost $17 billion advertising on U.S. Web sites in 2006, according to the IAB. Tacoda, founded in 2001, is based in New York and will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL. It has about 100 employees and more than 4,000 Web sites in its ad network. Its publishing clients include The New York Times Co. and NBC Universal.
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Time Warner Inc. TWX.N on Tuesday   said a strategy to offer most of online unit AOL's services for   free was making faster-than-expected progress in attracting new   Internet users and cutting costs.
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AOL (NYSE: AOL) Europe broadened its partnership with Google, announcing a multiyear agreement under which Google will provide outsourced targeted advertising services in addition to its search-engine offerings.
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NEW YORK -- United Online Inc., one of the country&#39;s largest Internet service providers, Monday said it agreed to buy Classmates Online Inc.
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LINUX DISTRIBUTOR Red Hat has shelled out $23 million to buy Netscape Communications&#39; Security Solutions unit from AOL. The deal means that Red Hat will get the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate